SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | A California wireless company agreed to remove a 40-foot utility pole it erected without a permit Jan. 10 on a family’s property in Mount Sinai, so long as Brookhaven town cooperates in a three-fold agreement.

UPDATE

The California-based wireless company that constructed a pole on the property of a family in Mount Sinai despite not receiving a permit from Brookhaven Town removed the pole Thursday, according to the property owners.

CBS News New York has the story.

Editor’s Note: The following was published Saturday.

A California wireless company agreed to remove a 40-foot utility pole it erected without a permit Jan. 10 on a family’s property in Mount Sinai, so long as Brookhaven town cooperates in a three-fold agreement, according to an e-mail read aloud by Superintendent of Highways John Rouse at a press conference Friday.

But the town said Friday the pole is going no matter what.

Click to view a video of the homeowner speaking out about the ordeal.

The e-mail, sent from NextG’s corporate council to the town attorney, said the town must cooperate in identifying an alternative location for the pole and must also process permit applications for nine other polls the company erected throughout Brookhaven town without permits.

The e-mail comes in response to a letter from Brookhaven town sent Monday giving NextG 10 days to remove the pole before the town’s highway department takes down the pole itself.

The pole NextG has agreed to remove sits on a town right-of-way on the property of Lori and Michael DiMarco.

Mr. Rouse said Brookhaven town discovered the additional poles installed without required permits in investigating the pole on the DiMarcos’ yard.

“We learned that NextG in fact has installed nine other poles around the Town of Brookhaven without permits,” he said. “However, they didn’t make the mistake of putting it on the front lawn of a family like the DiMarcos.”

Mr. Rouse said the town takes the same stance on those utility poles as the pole on the DiMarcos’ property.

“If the permit application is not appropriately made and approved, they will go too,” he said.

He told Mr. and Mrs. DiMarco they can rest assured that the town will remove the pole if NextG does not.

“Mr. and Mrs. DiMarco, I’m here to tell you we’ve got your back and this pole will be gone,” Mr. Rouse said. “We want to make sure everyone understands we are ready, willing and able — and more importantly, eager — to see this pole removed.”

Michael DiMarco said he believes town officials when they say they’ll have the pole removed.

Mr. DiMarco said trying to get the pole removed has taken a great toll on his family.

“We’ve been up all night [and we’ve] not been able to go to work,” he said.

Neighbors who rallied against NextG at the press conference voiced concern that the company will move the pole on the DiMarco’s property to another location in their neighborhood, especially after NextG offered in a private proposal to the town to move the pole across the street.

“The pole shouldn’t be in a development,” said Terri Brennan, a neighbor of the DiMarcos. “Put it on a main road where it’s not an unsightly problem.”

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