Oceanside City Accountability For Neighborhoods              

 

California Websites:

 

Glendale-Get The Cell Out of Here
http://www.getthecelloutofhere.com/

 

San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union
http://www.antennafreeunion.org/snafu.htm

 

Coalition to Regulate Antennae Siting
http://www.safeantenna.org/

 

Windsor Hills MySpace page
http://www.myspace.com/neighborhoodcoalition

 

National Websites:

CellularPCS.com - Wireless Telecommunications Antennae Siting News
http://cellularpcs.com/http:/cellularpcs.com/2008/11/24/important-court-decision-restores-local-govt-control-on-zoning-for-wireless/

The EMR (Electromagnetic Radiation Policy) Institute
http://www.emfpolicy.org
from their page on The Citizen's Tool Box: "FCC RF safety standards are based on protection of humans against thermal effects from high power levels of RF radiation. The FCC radiation limits do not protect people from adverse biological effects of long term RF exposure or take into account the impact on children or other especially vulnerable citizens."

RCR Wireless - Independent News on FCC Wireless Regulations
http://www.rcrwireless.com/section/fcc_wireless_regulations/


Municipal, State, and Federal Laws and Rulings:

City of Glendale Municipal Code with respect to Residential Districts and Wireless Telecommunications Equipment -
http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/gmc/Zoning_Code/Chapter30-11.pdf
Pages 1-2: this language is used for all residential zones:
"Wireless telecommunication facilities are disfavored from locating in this zone, permitting these facilities only when no feasible alternative site exists or when a denial would constitute a prohibition on the provision of the affected telecommunications service."

California Public Utilities Code section 7901
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=puc&group=07001-08000&file=7901-7912
First 2 paragraphs:
7901. Telegraph or telephone corporations may construct lines of telegraph or telephone lines along and upon any public road or highway, along or across any of the waters or lands within this State, and may erect poles, posts, piers, or abutments for supporting the insulators, wires, and other necessary fixtures of their lines, in such manner and at such points as not to incommode the public use of the road or highway or interrupt the navigation of the waters.
7901.1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, consistent with Section 7901, that municipalities shall have the right to exercise reasonable control as to the time, place, and manner in which roads, highways, and waterways are accessed.
(b) The control, to be reasonable, shall, at a minimum, be applied to all entities in an equivalent manner.
(c) Nothing in this section shall add to or subtract from any existing authority with respect to the imposition of fees by municipalities.

FCC Website - Wireless Facilities Siting Guidelines
http://wireless.fcc.gov/siting/local-state-gov.html

U.S. Code - Title 47, see section 332 (c)(7)
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+47USC332

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling against Sprint PCS and in favor of the County of San Diego, September 11, 2008
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2008/09/10/0556076.pdf
Excerpt: "...Sprint cannot meet its high burden of proving that 'no set of circumstances exists under which the [Ordinance] would be valid...'"