New Brunswick Cellular Telephone Co. v. Borough of South Plainfield Board of Adjustment

The telecommunications industry is among the fastest growing industries today. “Industry analysts predict that between 122,000 and 250,000 new cell sites will be needed to meet the growing demand of cellular phone subscribers in the United States alone.” Ben Campanelli, Planning for Cellular Towers (visited May 18, 1999) <http://www.webcom.com/~pcj/articles /caml28.html>. This need for “expansion of cellular communications systems, in both capacity and geographical coverage, has resulted in the inevitable conflict with local land-use planning and zoning laws. In many instances, the…