I'm so fed up with this.
If you are in ATL please come support us on Saturday.
I just sent this out to EVERY local news station in ATL:
This Saturday from 11am - 2pm in the heart of East Atlanta Village at Flat Shoals and Glenwood Ave residents of the neighborhood will take to the street to demand that Clear Wireless NOT erect a cell phone tower at 469 Metropolitan Place. The residents just WON a fight against T-mobile about the same location and T-Mobile agreed to construct the tower elsewhere. Clear could do the same, in fact, could rent space on the T-mobile tower but instead want to construct a tower on a residential street and next to a house of a woman who has been an East Atlanta resident since 1984. The neighborhood does not want the tower and yet Clear continues to threaten to construct it with out community support. We, as residents of East Atlanta, will fight this battle. My mother should not have to have a cell tower constructed steps from her home. She has dealt with enough in the neighborhood. Her home has been broken into 27 times and she has seen all kinds of drug violence in the neighborhood. Those days are now few and far between, she is over 60 and a cancer survivor and does not need to deal with a corporation erecting a huge structure next to her home with their revenue as their only motivation.
Thank you.
Please let me know if you need any more information.
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Your mother's house has been broken into 27 times and you are worried about a tower?? Doesn't seem like the right thing to be worried about. Tisk tisk.
A resident should not have to choose between safety in their home and the undesirable presence of a cell tower, nor are the two at odds with each othr in this situation. I don't believe the East Atlanta Village community is arguing that the cell tower will make their homes broken into more or less frequently.
The point, instead, is that residents of certain communities disproportionately face adverse living conditions, such as cell tower siting, inadequate public safety, violence, etc. It is frequently the SAME communities that are most neglected by city council decisions and resource distribution that do not have the political and monetary leverage against undesirable corporate actions in their neighborhoods (such as the cell tower).
My very conscious and aware daughter speaks to a situation (the cell tower) that has the power to impact any residential neighborhood. It has been documented that home values go down 20% following the construction of a nearby tower. She is aware that my home is my only investment and rather than see further loss for me she would like that all residences have protection from such a construction and result. She is aware that we have lived through home break ins, worked on how to avoid them, put efforts into community safety and been a devoted neighbor to those who have either lived in or broken into the homes. Simple responses usually don't cover a lifetime of experiences. I appreciate that what was written by my daughter was read. Further dialogue can be helpful in seeking truth.
It has been noted through some research that newborns and those persons who are suppressed immunologically may be at risk from what is emitted from the towers. We will know more down the journey of life.
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