Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Full Video: October 23, 2018 Montgomery County Council Meeting on ZTA 18-11 Wireless Antennas

October 23, 2018 Montgomery County Council Meeting on ZTA 18-11 on Wireless Antennas
Youtube Part I video 


Part II October 23, 2018 Montgomery County Council Meeting on ZTA 18-11 on Wireless Antennas
Youtube Part II video 


From Physicians for Safe Technology

Emergency 5G Ordinances  

Cities such as Mill Valley are deciding to pass an emergency Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Ordinance to maintain some modicum of local control over placement and monitoring of cell towers.  Mill Valley Ordinance Sept 6, 2018 amending the city code to provide uniform and comprehensive standards
  • Provides a 1,500 foot buffer from each small cell facility
  • Prohibits such facilities in residential and multi-family zoning districts.
  • Connect to an existing utility pole that can support its weight.
  • Encourages co-location on existing towers
  • Underground (flush to the ground, within three (3) feet of the utility pole), all ground-mounted equipment not installed inside the pole.
  • Adheres to the Americans for Disability Act
The Town of Hempstead passed a protective and legally binding  ordinance that
  • Requires a special use permit for cell towers that gives preferential placement of cell towers in historically sensitive areas around residences, schools, houses of worship, day-care centers that goes in preferential order from existing towers to industrial areas to non residential use (other) to business to residential property as the least desirable.
  • Limited the height of towers to below which lighting was required
  • Allows the town to hire consultants and do inspections
  • Set a fee schedule of $500 per pole
  • Requires a 4 foot warning sign on the pole

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