Citizen struggles Environmental health You Can Make a Difference! Proposed Cell Tower Site Saturday October 6, from 8 to 10 a.m. 1404 Villard st. Eugene OR SBA/Sprint has submitted a permit application to the City of Eugene Planning Department for a PCS (Personal Communication Systems) transmission tower located at 1404 Villard Street. This property is owned by Williams Bakery. The height of the proposed tower is 120 feet tall. Verizon also has a proposed site off Franklin less than 2000 feet from the proposed site on Villard. Because the Eugene City ordinance does not allow for these sites to be closer than 2000 feet from one another, SBA/Sprint will have to apply for a variance in addition to the regular permit application process. Except for the area north of this site, neighboring properties are residential (whatever their zoning). There is a daycare center in this neighborhood. This site will be situated next to U of O student housing. This site is totally inappropriate. Although potential health risks are not criteria in contesting the siting of these towers, they are of grave concern to many of us. There are a growing number of studies indicating caution in exposing people and animals to RF radiation. Of concern, also, is visual impact and property devaluation of neighboring properties. Saturday, October 6 from 8 to 10 A.M., we will be floating a 5 foot red balloon to the height of the proposed tower, 120 feet. Please join us and see for yourselves how intrusive 120 feet of vertical real estate will be in this neighborhood. We will have information on this issue along with a petition. We will also encourage you to consider joining us should members of the neighborhood decide to picket Williams Bakery. Picketing would send a powerful economic message to those who do not consider their neighbors or neighborhoods when choosing wealth over health, wealth over visual impact, and their economic gain over their neighborsí economic loss. Ron Meckler RMeckler@sbasite.com Site Representative for SBA 503-803-4426 503-963-9700 extension 220 123 NE 3rd Ave #215 Portland, OR 97232 Clyde Carson CarsonC@USBakery.com, Contact Person at Williams Bakery 485-8211 extension 223 1760 E. 13th Eugene, OR 97403 For more information regarding site review permit for the proposed tower contact: Kent Kullby - Kent.R.KULLBY@ci.eugene.or.us Associate Planner City of Eugene Planning & Development Dept. City of Eugene 99 W. 10th Ave. Eugene, OR 97405 For students wishing to express any concerns or comments, we suggest you contact: Nilda Brooklyn ASUOPres@Gladstone.uoregon.edu ASUO President 346-3724. The ASUO would seem to be the appropriate student organization to voice an opinion if there is a general consensus on this site. contact Mona Linstromberg Charb@presys.com for more information about Citizens for Responsible Placement of Cell Phone Transmission Towers.