Unfortunately this is a message surrounding more bad news and sneaky backstabbing behavior by the planning commission of South Lake Tahoe. For those of you in South Lake there is a meeting today at 3pm. 

We need you to write and call the city. Ask them to put this on the record, and let them know the proposed ordinance is a “feel good” ordinance that is unacceptable, and prevents a real solution. Email's are listed below. 

• It allows towers within 200 feet of homes and schools rather than prevent them within 1,500 feet. A tower’s peak radiation “donut” is generally greater than 500 feet away, health effects are commonly observed to 1,500 feet away, and real estate values are impacted at distances to a quarter mile. Ironically, 200 feet is within the donut hole below the beam.
• It does not protect city residents from continued bad or arbitrary judgment from the city planners, commissions, and councils. As the real underlaying problem is that the city itself is not reasonably interpreting the general plan, the ordinance must protect residents from the city’s continued bad judgement. This ordinance affirms the city discretion that they will abuse! The city is arrogating power to act outside the general plan!
• It requires conformance of cell sites to the standards in ordinance that were placed before January 1st 2007, but all the small cell towers were placed in the last few years.
• Untruthful and inaccurate statements must be explicit grounds for tower permit revocation upon discovery at any time. Material information must include alternate system designs, tower designs, signal measurement tests, graphical depictions, photo simulations from injurious vantage points, and applications to place proposed facility within other jurisdictions.
• It purportedly indemnifies the city against bodily harms caused by radiation at a trivial level that cannot protect against class action lawsuits—the most likely scenario for cancer increases which would coincide with widespread corporate bankruptcies. Whereas the city is attempting to exonerate itself from unconstitutional invasions of bodily integrity, this would be an illegal contract ( Cal. Civ. Code § 1668 ).
• Public notifications does not extend to the quarter mile range of a proposed tower site. Property values are known to be impacted this far out.
• Public notification is inadequate for residents do uncover and debunk fraudulent applications. It can take 3 weeks to get public records and have them evaluated by an technical expert such as an engineer.
• It foreseeably allows “support structures” in discouraged locations or land uses to be considered by un-trustable city staff as favorable for cell antenna locations and co-locations. A preferred support structure in a discouraged location must still be discouraged.
• It allows towers on or near Hospitals!
• The city staff are still allowed to permit tower installation in discouraged locations. This should be generally prohibitive. The city staff, commissions, and council, have proven themselves to be un-trustable.
• Tripp May significantly drafted this ordinance. He is a landlord attorney, and has oversold city residents on protecting their rights and the environment.
  
  Please speak-up today at the meeting on anything that resonates with you.
  
  Bridget Cornell – bcornell@trpa.org,
  Brooke Laine – blaine@cityofslt.us,
  Cody Bass – cbass@cityofslt.us,
  Candace Stowell – cstowell@cityofslt.us,
  Devin Middlebrook – dmiddlebrook@cityofslt.us,
  Hilda Baltodano – hilda.baltodano@cpuc.ca.gov,
  Jason Collin – jcollin@cityofslt.us,
  John Hitchcock – jhitchcock@cityofslt.us,
  Kevin Fabino – kfabino@cityofslt.us,
  Tamara Wallace – twallace@cityofslt.us,
  Wendy Jepson – wjepson@trpa.org,
  Jennifer Self – jself@trpa.org,
  Linda Allen – lallen@trpa.org,
  Jenna Palacio – thepalacio@gmail.com