Winfield Township approves new cell tower
WINFIELD TWP — Township supervisors gave final approval to plans from The Crossroads Group and TowerNorth Development to construct a cell tower along North Pike Road, near the border with Buffalo township, during their meeting Thursday night, May 29.
The monopole tower would be 194 feet high, including a 4-foot lightning rod, and will be leased by Verizon Wireless.
The tower is referred to in planning documents as the “Lernerville Cell Tower,” referring to the speedway located in Buffalo Township. However, the tower would actually be located near La Vigneta Winery — the former site of Cooper Station Restaurant — and Lenzi Auto Sales.
“It’s near Lernerville Speedway, so I’m sure it will cover it, but it’s in Winfield Township,” supervisor Matthew Klabnik said. “That whole area is called Lernerville”
The Crossroads Group is responsible for the engineering, while TowerNorth Development is listed on the Federal Communications Commission antenna application as owner of the tower site.
Klabnik said there are no homes in the vicinity of the construction area.
Supervisors granted final approval to Crossroads and TowerNorth contingent upon the parties eventually receiving a highway occupancy permit and a stormwater operations agreement.
Supervisors announced that the traffic signal upgrade at the intersection of Route 356 and Winfield Road is nearing completion, and the newly upgraded signal should be activated in the coming weeks.
“That light is substantially installed and is hanging up there,” Klabnik said. “The power got attached to it yesterday, and it’s looking like the week of June 9 is when that will be turned on.”
The traffic signal modernization project was funded by a grant of just over $300,000 from Pennsylvania’s “Green Light Go” program in July 2022, a state-run program to fund municipal traffic signal upgrades.
“(The contractor) will complete the rest of the work ... the crosswalks and the sidewalks that are associated with the project,” Klabnik said.
