County Hearing: Take Action To Halt Montgomery County Plan To Put Cell Antennas In Front of Your Home

Take Action To Halt Montgomery County Plan To Put Cell Antennas In Front of Your Home

Montgomery Council Council is fast tracking a cell phone tower zoning Bill (ZTA) that will allow mini cell towers in our yards-  ZTA (18-11). The vote is expected in October - before the November general elections.

This ZTA 18-11 will make it even easier and faster to install large, ugly cell poles in our neighborhoods in front of our homes. Cell antennas are to be mounted on street lights, utility poles, sides of buildings  and new poles created just for the mini cell towers.

We Must Raise Our Voices to Halt This Unfriendly ZTA!

We need you to do two things:

1. Sign up  and show up at the September 25th, County Council Hearing!!

This will be the ONLY public hearing on this hasty, resident-unfriendly zoning bill. Please plan to attend!  

2. Submit testimony by email ASAP to the Council. Even if you cannot make the Sept 25 hearing you MUST write and CALL your council to inform them that you do not want antennas in our front yard.  Tell them you do not want them to pass ZTA that allows wireless in you front yard.

Email to all these emails to ensure staff members are meeting emails personally. (Just cut and paste this email list.)

county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov, Ken.Silverman@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov, jason.fasteau@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov, Tommy.Heyboer@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov, Kathleen.Mitchell@MontgomeryCountyMD.gov, Alexis.Reed@montgomerycountymd.gov, Bertha.Flores@montgomerycountymd.gov, Mayra.Cruz-Solis@montgomerycountymd.gov, Patty.Vitale@montgomerycountymd.gov, Chris.Gillis@montgomerycountymd.gov, Walton.Harris@montgomerycountymd.gov, Councilmember.Berliner@montgomerycountymd.gov, warren.hansen@montgomerycountymd.gov, Steven.Goldstein@montgomerycountymd.gov, sharon.ledner@montgomerycountymd.gov, Rose.Taylor@montgomerycountymd.gov, lisa.mandel-trupp@montgomerycountymd.gov, Mary.Gies@montgomerycountymd.gov, Yi.Shen@montgomerycountymd.gov, Dale.Tibbitts@montgomerycountymd.gov, Dave.Kunes@montgomerycountymd.gov, Brian.Anleu@montgomerycountymd.gov, Andrea.Nunez@montgomerycountymd.gov,

3. Spread the word: Get this message out on your listservs and to all your neighbors. We must inform everyone we know to get the community involved. Every person needs to write the council, and especially their councilmember!

Call your councilmember NOW and talk to your representatives staff members and tell them you do not want a cell antennas in front of your home.

Cell antennas decrease property values (see documentation at the National Association of Realtors website, emit radiation (read research on cell towers and health here) and are simply UGLY. See 20 facts about small cell towers here.

September 25 Council Hearing Information

Where: County Council Building

             100 Maryland Avenue - 3rd Floor Hearing Room

             Rockville, MD 20850

When:  7:30PM Tuesday

Be sure to forward this email on to your friends and neighbors.

We are a large coalition of organizations in support of protective zoning in neighborhoods. More information at Montgomery County Coalition for the Control of Cell Towers WWW.MC4T.ORG and https://smallcellsinmontgomerycounty.blogspot.com