A change.org petition has been started calling on state officials to block a 120-foot telecommunications tower proposed for land near exit 7 on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Pelham Manor.

Resident Maurice Owen-Michaane set up the petition and it currently has 30 signatures. In an email, Owen-Michaane said he opposed the tower at Monday night’s Pelham Manor Board of Trustees meeting. “All those in attendance were opposed,” he said.

The petition is addressed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin.

Officials from the New York State Department of Transportation and the DOT’s contractor appeared at the village board meeting to discuss the telecommunications pole. The village does not have a say in the construction of the tower, as it’s on state land. The DOT has already moved the location of the proposed tower once, south from exit 9, after Pelham town, village and school officials protested its proximity to the Pelham high school/middle school complex.

The change.org petition cites seven reasons why the poll should not go up at exit 7, including that it “will be a constant eye sore in a town where nothing is even remotely that tall” and “it would not be in concert with the aesthetic of our beautiful community to have this stick out like a sore thumb and will directly impact our home values.”