Subject:  Victory in San Francisco? (Beaver)..
Date:     Sat, 26 Feb 2000 211248 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 15:27:00 -0800
From: Christopher Beaver 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Victory in San Francisco?

Dear Roy:

The latest antenna struggle here in San Francisco appears to be headed
toward a neighborhood victory.

As you may recall, Sprint wanted to install nine antennas on Church of
the First Covenant in the shape of the cross. After hearing from
neighbors at a meeting Sprint was forced to conduct according to San
Francisco zoning laws, the church board announced they would try to
break their signed contract with Sprint.

According to church leaders, Sprint never disclosed to the church that
there was any possibility of health hazards from microwave radiation nor
that Sprint planned to construct the antennas on the front of the church
in the form of a cross.

We haven't heard a direct response from Sprint. At the community
meeting, however, the Sprint representative, Tony Lello from Chicago,
stated to one of the organizers that only thirty people showed up at the
meeting and only five or so were outspoken. In his opinion, given the
lack of community response, Sprint would not back out of the contract
and even if they did, he vowed that Sprint would seek another site no
further away than a block and a half. 

In terms of neighborhood response, Mr. Lello previously had first mailed
meeting notices with the wrong address for the meeting then corrected
the address in a second mailing. (Sounds like he's qualified to work for
the U.S. census). This meant that neighbors had less than the legislated
period of time to plan for the meeting. In addition, here in San
Francisco, according to City law, only homeowners need be advised that
antennas are to be constructed near them. Renters who make up more than
half the population need not be informed.

As a final note, in the original meeting, I personally got in a shouting
match with an engineer from Hammett and Edison who attempted to use the
Sutton Caulfield antenna study to illustrate that microwave radiation is
perfectly safe. I'm not proud of my shouting, but I am proud that I
stood up to the same company that has constructed the illegal antennas
on Sutro Tower. And I was thrilled that I was able to hand out Dr. John
Goldsmith's "End of Innocence" commentary to support my position. Dr.
Goldsmith, I felt your hand on my shoulder as I spoke. I hope I did
okay. In this connection, the engineer mentioned a study of the central
television antenna in Moscow that exonerated microwave radiation as a
health risk. Anyone with information on this antenna?

More soon on this breaking story...

Christopher Beaver



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