Subject:  (Celine) Democratic process is easy to exploit......
Date:     Thu, 11 Mar 1999 041139 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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........Telecom company defies town council's slow procedural
process -- then wants to be "grandfathered" if town council rules
against the tower construction.....  What would you expect???
No wonder WE, the PUBLIC, can't control our own destiny!!!  It's
our own G. D. fault.......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness... 
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:57:22 -0500
From: CG 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Legal question

>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:54:30 -0500
>To: beavers@llion.org
>From: CG 
>Subject: Legal question
>
>Dear Roy,
>
>In the fall of 1997, a telecommunications company got an approval from our
zoning board for a special permit to place antennas on a water tower in a
residential neighborhood. The watertower is on town land within a
residntail area. A group of people in the neighborhood filed an appeal to
the Zoning board. There was no response from the zoning board or the
telecommunications company. The neighborhood group organized a moratorium
for the town in order to get some good by-laws in place. The group worked
with the planning board to create by-laws. The by-laws are soon to be voted
on at an annual town meeting. Now, however, since the town does not want to
address the original Appeal in the Fall of 1997, the telecommunications
company has subpoenaed members of the citizens group that filed the appeal.
I am assuming the telecommunications company would like to be
"grand-fathered in" because they had won the approval of the zoning board
before the telecommunications by-laws were voted in. The by-laws would keep
them out of the residential area. This citizens group has to go into court
soon. Are there any similar "cases" anywhere in the country? I am
especially looking for any cases that may have been judged in favor of the
citizens. Also where could I access the actual cases? Thank you very much.
>
>Celine  



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