Sunroom Desk

Concerned residents in Atwater, Burbank, and West Covina have contacted Glendale Organized Against Cell Towers recently through its website www.getthecelloutofhere.com for help in opposing proposed cell transmission sites.

In Atwater, T-Mobile applied to install a cell site on top of apartments across the street from Atwater Elementary School. Shortly after resident Susan Becker contacted GOACT, Eric Garcetti’s office, city planning, the LAUSD (which has passed a resolution banning cell sites on school district properties), and school administrators, she learned that T-Mobile had withdrawn its application. Becker attended Saturday’s session on utility pole sitings and believes that T-Mobile will take a less visible route, like working through the Joint Pole Committee, to site a facility in the neighborhood without any public notice.

The Leader covered residents’ objections to a proposed T-Mobile tower at Brace Canyon. A subsequent Leader editorial praised Glendale’s approach to the situation. The matter goes before the Burbank City Council tonight.

In West Covina, a parent whose child attends a church/elementary school that turned down a request to enter into a lease agreement learned that its next door neighbor, another house of worship, had agreed to a lease which would place a cell site adjacent to her child’s school. The matter will be up for discussion at a West Covina Planning Commission meeting tonight as well.