Bridgewater Town Council will have a hearing on Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30 at the council chambers in the town hall on Bridgewater College’s request to host an AT&T telecommunications antenna on a heating plant smokestack. Check the Daily News-Record’s coverage of an earlier proceeding. Property owners were notified this week of the public hearing in a mailing. The notice describes the subject of the hearing as a special use permit that “would allow the installation of a cellular antenna on the College’s existing smoke stack located on the property.”

The original public hearing notice posted by the Town of Bridgewater prompted multiple posts at Bridgewater Buzz. As background: The notice said the proposed ordinance would allow telecommunication towers and antennas as a matter of right within the “college campus enclave.” In that area, the College has broad discretion to place buildings and other facilities, but it has to maintain specified buffers from the surrounding neighborhoods. The Town’s notice said: “In lieu of accepting (or rejecting) these proposed changes, the Council could allow such antennas and towers only with a special use permit after a case by case review.” The Sept. 9 hearing is on such a special use permit.