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Meeting Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Council/PH Committee: Council/Public Hearing
Agenda Item: Resolutions 20-155, 20-156, 20-161
2) Give oral testimony online the day of the meeting by joining the meeting online at WebEx or phoning in. You will have 3 minutes to testify. Prepare in advance. Best to register in advance: www.webex.com Click "Join" enter meeting #: 1465040456 and complete the registration process. Best to register 24 hours in advance.
3) Testify in person at the Honolulu City Council Chamber, 530 South King Street, 3rd Floor Honolulu Hale. Prepare your testimony. You will have 3 minutes.
For more info about testifying click here
Please Remember: Avoid talking about health and environmental effects! If too many people testify about environment or health effects, it can compromise the hearing (because the Telecom Act of 1996 prohibits objecting to cell towers/antennas on those grounds).
Here are some points you can choose from to mix and match in your testimony.
DO NOT copy/paste them all. Pick one or two and embellish. Please add your own words.
2) These facilities will inflict adverse aesthetic impact. Honolulu is a tourist destination and all of these small cells hanging off of our street lights would produce visual blight, disturb the view plane, be so ugly, drive tourists away, etc....
3) There are insufficient fall zones around street lights. The potential to cause harm is extreme, such as property damage to nearby cars, and personal injury or death to anyone who might be unlucky enough to be near a cell facility when it fails.
4) Cell facilities have been known to catch fire. A quick search of YouTube will show multiple videos of cell antenna fires. We do not want these fire hazards.
5) City street lights are too close to schools and children could be injured if the facilities fall or components (such as baseplates, flanges, joints, bolts or guy wires) are blown off by high winds.
6) Our street lights are too close to condos and businesses (shops, restaurants, offices) with busy sidewalks. Residents and visitors could be injured if the facilities fall or components (such as baseplates, flanges, joints, bolts or guy wires) are blown off by high winds.
7) Noise pollution is a factor. Excessive noise from cooling the ancillary equipment (up to 28 cubic feet) for each antenna would disturb the quiet enjoyment of our streets and neighborhoods.
8) Cell towers in residential areas would also create an access barrier to the homes and communities of Americans with Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS), an environmentally-induced medical illness that can be caused by RF microwave radiation exposures. These Americans (estimated to be 25,000,000 Americans and growing) with Federally-recognized ADA disability rights, would be barred from accessing public spaces and could be forced to
move from their homes. https://wearetheevidence.org/electromagnetic-sensitivity/
9) There is not a significant gap in personal wireless service. Applicants are required to prove a significant gap in service and there is no such thing. Honolulu is saturated with cell coverage. These facilities are proposed by site developers, not by wireless carriers. Site developers do not provide personal cellular service. If there were a gap in coverage the carriers themselves (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint) would be making these
proposals but they are not. Honolulu has adequate cell coverage. There is no need for more.
10) Site Developers are notorious for blanket installing unneeded and unnecessary cell facilities in urban areas because it's fast and cheap and they make a lot of money collecting rent from the carriers for the life of the facilities. Site developers do not have our best interests in mind. They make use of our publicly owned, taxpayer funded streetlights and electricity and pavements. They pay nominal rent for use of our street
lights and saturate our streets and neighborhoods with toxic wireless radiation. A large body of research reports adverse health effects https://bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/ It's not worth the risk. No insurance company will insure cell facilities against health effects.
11) These resolutions are proposed by site developers that are notorious for tricking local authorities by providing false and misleading information in their applications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=UtT6gVH584s Please demand hard data. Ask the carriers themselves
(Verizon, AT&T, Sprint) for their records of dropped calls in the proposed areas. They can produce this information with the click of a mouse. We need evidence of lack of coverage. Do not take the site developers word for it. Do not be tricked. We demand proof from the carriers themselves.
12) We are not anti-technology! We want optical fiber to the premises. We want SafeG! www.SafeG.net
Details on testifying here: https://www.honolulu.gov/participate.html
Please share with others to oppose. Please stick with facts and science!
Here's a list of individual council members to email each personally:
Subject line: Oppose RES20-155, 20-156, & 20-161
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