Subject:  Another Historic District Tower (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 20 Aug 1998 084608 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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.......I am familiar with this case......The EMF/health issue was not
raised.....Therefore, this effort was doomed from the start.....guru.....

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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:15:11 -0400
From: Marty Tennant 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Another Historic District Tower

>From Telecom AM

This sounds like a grassroots effort that failed.  They tout the
process working, but ignore the opinions of the people.  Doesn't sound
good for us here in Georgetown.

Marty Tennant

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FCC OKAYS WIRELESS TOWER IN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESPITE OBJECTIONS

The FCC ended two years of debate by approving Mid-Missouri Cellular's
(MMC)
application to build a transmission tower in Lexington, Missouri, in a
historic
district near a Civil War battleground. The Commission said the
company had
adequately addressed the complaints raised by state and government
historic
preservationists seeking to block construction. "This [Wireless]
Bureau order is
a model case of how [National Environmental Policy Act] works in the
context of
intergovernmental cooperation, and it also shows that the Bureau
expects early
coordination between the carrier and the [State Historic Preservation
Office]
before the tower is constructed," a Bureau source said. Resident
Teresa Maki
said she was "very upset that they went ahead with it" while ignoring
the
outpouring of protest, and Shirley Childs said the FCC Commissioners
"don't have
to live on these streets along here."

The proposed site of the 160-foot tower is in a residential historic
district of
houses built in the 19th century, maintaining a "high degree of
integrity" of
their original appearance. After filing with the City Clerk of
Lexington in
August 1996, MMC began its investigation in conjunction with the FCC,
SHPO and
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to assess the tower's
effect on
the historic properties. The Commission ruled that the company had
provided the
public with an "ample opportunity" to participate in the process,
citing the
"number of letters filed by residents and others" as evidence of MMC's
success
in its efforts to inform and involve the community.




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