BY ANDY TAYLOR

CANEY — For the second time in as many weeks, Caney city councilors nixed a proposal by a Bartlesville business owner to erect a cellular telephone tower southwest of the intersection of Sixth and McGee streets.

The council’s latest rejection of the proposal by Kevin Potter, owner of several Bartlesville radio stations, came Monday at a special meeting of the council.

At its April 20 meeting, city councilors voted 7-0 to deny the recommendation from the Caney Planning and Zoning Commission to rezone the property near Sixth and McGee streets from B-1 (business) to A-1 (agricultural) that was needed to accommodate the proposed 199-foot cellular telephone tower. City ordinance require cellular transmission towers to be zoned in an A-1 setting. The council also nixed a proposed Conditional Use Permit that Potter would have needed to erect that tower in that location.

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