FCC acts to limit local zoning authority

An FCC ruling on wireless siting applications significantly intrudes upon local zoning authority and could have implications for even further FCC pre-emption over local government authority.

The ruling, issued Nov. 18 on a petition filed by CTIA - The Wireless Association, sets “shot clocks” for local action on wireless siting applications. It requires that counties take no more than 90 days to act on a wireless co-location application or no more than 150 days for all other wireless siting requests...