PEWEE VALLEY, Ky. — Pewee Valley has adopted an ordinance allowing it to reject structures more than 100 feet tall. The city took the action after learning that Crown Castle USA is proceeding with plans to build a 180-foot cellular telephone tower next to a historic district in the center of town.

        City leaders had been negotiating with the company to provide a more suitable site than the one proposed behind a church on Ky. 146.

        But Crown Castle contacted the state Public Service Commission on April 8 and received a docket application number for the church site, PSC officials said. The number must be posted at the site for at least 30 days before an application is filed.

        Crown Castle representatives could not be reached for comment.

        Pewee Valley Mayor Jim Kincer said Crown Castle notified him of its action on April 8 and indicated that the company was moving ahead because of pending legislation in the General Assembly that would grant local planning commissions more control over cell-tower sites.

        “They said they had to get their application filed before House Bill 270 passed,” Mr. Kincer said.

        The legislature passed the bill Monday.

        The City Council called an emergency meeting the same day and unanimously adopted the structure-height ordinance — a tool the city hopes to use to persuade Crown Castle to reconsider its decision, delay the project or even stop it.

        The new ordinance requires that the city be notified of a tower application to the PSC, that a tower builder pay an application fee and that the tower company report the results of interviews with neighbors.

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