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Mill Valley joins effort to constrain 5G proliferation
The city of Mill Valley has enacted an urgency ordinance to regulate "small cell" towers amid concerns that cellphone companies want to grow their 5G networks and install new equipment in Marin. "We do intend to do more work and studies to craft a permanent ordinance within the next year," Mill Valley Mayor Stephanie Moulton-Peters said Friday. "The urgency ordinance has standards to limit and prohibit the installations of devices in residential neighborhoods, but there is more that we can do."
The decision came on a unanimous vote by the City Council on Thursday, after residents from across Marin packed the council chambers as part of a campaign urging local officials to block cellphone companies from attempting to build 5G towers in the county. No proposals for 5G towers have been submitted to Mill Valley, staff said.
The issue is that 5G towers, which would allow for faster and higher-capacity video streaming and other transmissions, could exacerbate health symptoms already suspected as a result of exposure to electromagnetic fields, according to the EMF Safety Network, a group advocating to keep communities EMF-free. Those symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, sleep problems, anxiety, heart problems, learning and memory disorders, ringing in the ears and increased cancer risk, according to the EMF Safety Network website.
"What 5G does is it adds another cloud to what we refer to as 'electromagnetic smog' into an environment that is already pretty saturated," said Fairfax resident and activist Valeri Hood. "In Fairfax, what we're doing is asking our council to step up in the way councils have in the past, and just say no to 5G."
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:42PM (4 children)
To Assholes. Moron, get out of the way of society. I won't wish death upon you, I'll let you earn your own Darwin award.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:56PM (2 children)
I wonder how long it takes to get a Darwin award if you get an apartment next to a 5G tower?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:59PM
However long it takes for curiosity to get them climbing up to the tower. Getting close to one of those is totally recommended wink
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:05PM
Speaking of towers, here's what my search for 5G tower [google.com] looks like (screenshotted in case there are differences):
https://imgur.com/a/E6MOgvA [imgur.com]
Maybe this movement is bigger than we thought.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:06PM
Die for the town, not the individuals in it. Geesh.