Verizon in Settlement Talks With Acushnet on Proposed Wireless Facility

Plaintiff Verizon Wireless assented to a motion by the town of Acushnet, Massachusetts, and five members of the town’s zoning board of appeals for a deadline extension to Jan. 27 to answer Verizon’s Oct. 15 complaint that the town violated the Telecommunication Act’s Section 332 (see 2210200041), said the motion (docket 1:22-cv-11789). Verizon and Acushnet are engaged in settlement talks, and the deadline extension “will preserve limited public resources,” said the motion. Verizon alleges that when Acushnet and its board denied a Verizon application for a special permit to build and operate a proposed wireless facility, the town failed to put its denial reasons in a written decision, as the statute requires.