In March, the CBC community blog asked people if it’s better to disguise cell phone towers as trees. The results are very clear-more than 71% agreed.
Because the towers are usually over 82 feet (25 meters) in height, they are much taller than most of the surrounding vegetation. Therefore, at least from a distance, they are not easily confused with other trees in the landscape. Compared with traditional cell phone towers, they are definitely less visually destructive.
However, they are not entirely correct. The human eye can easily find something slightly problematic. According to a CBC article, a woman described them as "like white pine trees on steroids."
Obviously, "disguised" cell phone towers (they appear in the form of palm trees, street lights, barn silos, and even church spires), although common in the United States, are relatively new in Canada.
If they must exist, and they must exist, then they don't look bad.
