Vigilant Southern California residents are continuing to educate neighbors and local government officials about the need to regulate rapidly proliferating cell sites.
The Pasadena City Council just agreed to review approval of a T-Mobile cell site in an area identified on the National Register of Historic Places. Residents mobilized to protest the installation, which was proposed for a wooden pole. Pasadena Now reports “The wooden pole is owned by the Joint Pole Association of which T-Mobile is a member, and not by the city, so the city would not receive rent. Relocating the array to a city-owned pole would result in T-Mobile paying the city $8,000 per year in rent. Members of the City Council were not aware of this until the Monday meeting.”
The Joint Pole Association and its regulations have been studied extensively by Pacific Palisades advocate Christina Spitz. Palisades Post just published this report on her continuing efforts to enact better cell site regulations for the whole city of Los Angeles.