[Durham INC] INC neighbors to request help 3/2014

[Pat Carstensen]

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Regards, pat
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 00:15:54 -0500
From: iam4truth at earthlink.net
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CC: donnakrudolph at gmail.com
Subject: [Durham INC] INC neighbors to request help 3/2014



INC
Neighbors,


What
are you going to do when you get home from a long day at work and there’s a
bulldozer tearing up the lot next door to erect a 120 foot cell phone tower
without your ever having been notified and never having had an opportunity to
voice your opinion about it?  This scenario is going to continue to be a
reality for some of our Durham neighbors unless we convince the Durham Planning
Commission before 7pm on March 10th that the Wireless Facility
Communication (WFC) Ordinance Amendment TC1200013 for the Durham City/County
UDO needs to include residents in the decision process as to where and how
towers are sited in residential zones.


Durham
residents want and need communication services. Towers, sometimes called
“vertical real estate,” support communication arrays and are a big business
each generating hundreds of thousand dollars a year as they rent space to wireless
broadband companies. However, these high rise, commercial enterprises with
their equipment compounds containing air conditioners, generators, and fuel
tanks can place a burden on the homes they are located next to by reducing
property values because of perceived health risks, safety and noise issues, and
visual pollution. 



InterNeighborhood
Council of Durham believes the evaluation of the suitability of a cell phone tower
site in all Durham County residential zones should include the individuals whose
lives will be impacted which means prior notification for residents within a
reasonable proximity to the proposed tower site and a public hearing allowing
the affected residents a platform to have their concerns, if any, addressed
before approval. The pending amended WFC/UDO text, as it presently stands, leaves
the residents of existing county suburban neighborhoods without the same safety
and aesthetic standards as their suburban counterparts inside the city line. 



Today,
INC is asking for your immediate show of support by e-mailing the Planning
Commissioners relating that we want to resolve the following oversights of the amended
TC1200013 before the amendment becomes law: 1) Durham residents deserve notice
of proposed cell phone towers coming into or next to their neighborhood and
should have an opportunity to have their concerns addressed before a tower is
approved and 2) existing Durham city and county neighborhoods should be treated
equally with the same tower regulations.  Go to: http://durhamnc.gov/ich/cb/ccpd/Pages/Durham-Planning-Commission.aspx
click on e
mail all commissioners. 



To read the WFC/UDO
amendment:

http://durhamnc.gov/ich/cb/ccpd/Pages/Text%20Amendments/Pending-Text-Amendments.aspx


Dolly Fehrenbacher, INC Zoning/Land Use Committee



 



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