Subject:  (Tennant) Petition to Deny filed w/ FCC (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 29 Sep 1998 084913 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:32:07 -0400
From: Marty Tennant 
To: "Roy L. Beavers (by way of Newtons at Fruitlands
     )" 
Subject: Petition to Deny filed w/ FCC

Roy,

With a great deal of help from the National Trust for Historic
Preservation Legal Defense Fund, I recently filed a formal "Petition
to Deny" for a tower here in Georgetown, SC.  This is the tower SCANA
wants to erect next to our Historic District.

If anyone wants a MS Word 6.0 or WordPerfect 6/7/8 version of this
document, I will be glad to provide it upon request.

In this case, we were filing the petition in response to an
Environmental Assessment filed by the tower applicant.  However, FCC
rules provide for anyone filing a "Petition
to Deny" to allege a failure by the applicant to establish the public
convenience, necessity, or interest for the tower or service.

Many thanks for all the help I've received from countless individuals
preparing for this filing.

We concluded our petition with a quote from the recent Virginia Beach,
VA appeals court decision.  The judges in that decision overturned a
favorable District Court decision for the industry, citing the
inevitable barrage of expert studies and opinions that the industry
will produce to show they must be allowed to erect a tower.  The
appeals court said that to ignore the average non-expert opposition to
towers would be the equivalent of thwarting democracy.  This decision
affirms local zoning and the falacy that cities cannot refuse towers.

If you haven't seen that decision, you should read it carefully.  I
have a copy of it too for the asking.

Please distribute as needed.

Marty Tennant

marty tennant - president - low tech designs, inc.(tm)
"Bringing Technology Down to Earth"(sm)
1204 Saville St., Georgetown, SC 29440
843 527-4485 voice / 843 527-7783 fax






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