Here (on pages 14-18) is an inventory and map of all the cell towers city staff could find in Glendale, California as of June 9, 2009. City staff inventoried and mapped all these sites in their efforts to develop knowledge about current Glendale deployments and to craft an ordinance that would govern future installations.
Homeowners’ advocate Margaret Hammond asked for such a map when Glendale Organized Against Cell Towers (GOACT) first came before city council to ask for stronger controls on wireless installations. The city did not have an existing map, so staff created this one.
In addition to the work mapping must have entailed, city attorney staff have researched federal and state laws governing telecommunications installations. General Counsel for Public Works Christina Sansone presented two reports to city council yesterday, this one on a resolution to send to the White House and the U.S. Congress calling for revisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the report with maps above which also deals with extending the city’s current moratorium on wireless installations.
This is a lot of footwork and legal research. The goal for Glendale is to craft a state-of-the-art wireless ordinance that protects residential areas and provides a sensible and fair method for processing wireless permit applications.