Subject: Citizens prevent tower installation (Kelley)
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 024841 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......."An empowering experience," said one resident.... The tower
would "devalue" property said the appraisal expert....
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:32:09 -0800
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Citizens in Ridgewood, New Jerseys prevent tower installation
Bergen Record (Newspaper)
DOT drops bid for cell tower in Ridgewood
Thursday, November 11, 1999
By EVONNE COUTROS
Staff Writer
RIDGEWOOD -- Faced with local opposition, the state
Department of Transportation has abandoned a proposal to
construct a 120-foot cellular
tower along Franklin Turnpike and Route 17 south.
"The department will honor the community's request and the
facility will not be
built," said DOT spokesman John Dourgarian on Wednesday.
The mayor and council voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose
the plan for a wireless communications structure on
state-owned land. The tower, strongly
opposed by neighbors, would have been leased to carriers.
"It was an empowering experience for the residents," said
Councilwoman Jane Reilly, who has opposed the plan since
its proposal in March. "They came
forward as a united neighborhood and were successful in
opposing the tower."
Robert Lanni of Westfield Avenue lives 1,400 feet from the
site. The computer programmer is one of about 50
concerned residents who attended
Tuesday's council meeting.
"What it means for us is that it protects the land and the
property values," Lanni said. "As a group of residents,
we got together and realized how it
affected our families and ourselves and we would not stand
for it and let things
slip by without having our voice."
The Transportation Department had sought the village's
consent to construct
the lattice-type tower in a DOT maintenance yard. The
10.29-acre parcel also
houses a park-and-ride lot, shuttle bus service to Newark
Airport, and a dome for road salt storage.
The department held a hearing on the proposal Sept. 13,
after which residents
pressured village officials to oppose the tower.
The council's resolution states that the village
commissioned an appraiser "and
his conclusions support the assertions of the property
owners, that to permit
the tower would substantially devalue properties in the
immediate area."
It also said that at the September hearing the village
heard nothing about the
"possibility of electromagnetic interference, which could
affect the health-care
facilities which are located on property adjacent to and
near to the state property."
There also was little testimony regarding the danger of
ice falling from the
tower, the resolution states.
Village officials said wireless service is available in
the area "perhaps with
some gaps, perhaps with some static, but that the service
currently existing is
substantially better than mediocre."
Reilly agreed with residents' demands.
"I couldn't see a benefit so great that would outweigh the
egregious imposition
on the neighborhood," she said.
Copyright © 1999 Bergen Record Corp.
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
aka ~ Ad Hoc Association of Parties Concerned about
the FCC's Radiofrequency Radiation Health and Safety Rules
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