{"id":754320,"date":"2026-06-22T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:34:09","slug":"surrey-council-to-vote-on-32-metre-telecom-tower-for-fleetwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754320\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey council to vote on 32-metre telecom tower for Fleetwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey council to vote on 32-metre telecom tower for Fleetwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 11:40 am Monday, June 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Surrey council will vote June 29 on whether to permit the development of a 32-metre (105-foot-tall) telecommunications tower at 17023 88 Avenue in Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ron Gill, Surrey\u2019s general manager of planning and development, the proposed tower \u201cavoids actively farmed land,\u201d would be situated on an arterial road and wouldn\u2019t be located in a sensitive ecosystem area.<\/p>\n<p>Gill noted Surrey\u2019s zoning bylaw permits telecommunications towers up to 20 metres high on agricultural land and this one requires a variance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff do not anticipate any significant negative impacts on the neighbourhood to result from the proposed variance,\u201d Gill noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/planning-reports\/PLR_7925-0141-00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planning report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The subject site is nearly two hectares and located on the north side of 88 Avenue opposite of Charles Richardson Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe site currently contains one single family dwelling and various farm buildings with the second single family dwelling under construction,\u201d Gill noted.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no public hearing on this proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey council to vote on 32-metre telecom tower for Fleetwood Published 11:40 am Monday, June 22, 2026 Surrey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-754320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}