Subject:  Broadcasters dig in on Lookout Mt. (Carney)...
Date:     Fri, 13 Aug 1999 184713 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.....They are simply behaving like any other school yard bully....
They don't know any other way to behave.....  If they see that they can
intimidate you ... they will get worse....  Just like any other school
yard bully.....

Cheerio....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:28:10 -0600
From: Deb Carney 
To: "Crowder, Bob" 
Subject: Broadcasters dig in on Lookout Mt.

The Jefferson County Commissioners unanimously rejected Lake Cedar
Group's proposal for a supertower on Lookout Mt. following hours of
testimony.  On August 3, 1999, the  Jefferson County Commissioners
approved the attached resolution denying the Lake Cedar Group rezoning
proposal for a transmission building and “supertower” on Lookout
Mountain.  This resolution was issued following numerous public hearings
where extensive sworn oral and written testimony was presented to the
County Commissioners.  The Jefferson County Commissioner’s Resolution
provides a number of reasons for their rejection of this proposal
including but not limited to findings that the proposal:
 …does not substantially conform with the Central Mountains Community
Plan because it does not conform to the policy recommendations
associated with visual resources, public services/facilities and
mountain site design criteria.
 …does not substantially conform with the Telecommunications Land Use
Plan because it does not conform to the policy recommendations
associated with tower siting.
 …does not meet minimum standards for telecommunications facilities
contained in the Jefferson County Zoning Resolution.  The proposal fails
to
meet these standards because it does not demonstrate that no alternative
existing site is available to accommodate the equipment at a reasonable
cost or other business terms, because the proposal does not contain
sufficient setbacks, and because the proposal does not demonstrate that
the NIER emission levels set forth in the Zoning Resolution are met.
 That the proposal is incompatible with residential uses in the
surrounding area.  (page 2)

Deb to readers:
These broadcasters do not have appeared to have learned much about the
depth of community opposition to their radiation.  None of their 80
acres are zoned for towers per se.  They are zoned as mountain
residential and agricultural legal non-conforming.  Stay tuned for
developments:

Lake Cedar Group-through Jim MacDermott sent me a letter today that
says:
   " ...The members of LCG own approximately 80 acres of property on
Lookout wich is, and will continually be, legally used for purposes of
television and radio broadcast transmission.  We thorouthly analyzed and

evaluated all other potential sites many years ago when we began the
consolidation process, and repeated that again prior to and during the
application hearings, and determined that Lookout was the only feasible
site.  No other existing or approved site, or any other location, was or

is capable of handling the consolidated facility or of delivering
satifactory signal coverage to the citizens of the metro area.
    As we have stated in the past, we stand ready to meet with you and
the Commissioners in order to bring about that "win-win" goal on
Lookout.  Please provide me with some alternative dates and times that
you would be available for such a meeting so that we can schedule it at
a mutually convenient time."


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