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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: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 11 2018, @09:58PM (6 children)
Interestingly, India has made a major effort and investment to get rid of open defecation.
I would think that California would want to do at least as well. Maybe simply have more public toilets like India.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)
California as a whole is fine, just SF and probably parts of LA that have real problems. Maybe San Diego? I would say ask EF since he claims to live there, but good luck getting a coherent response.
The public restrooms in SF were closed because they'd get totally disgusting by some asshole people. There really isn't a way around it though, pay the cost of running public restrooms or have shit on the streets. Fuck SF for not maintaining public restrooms, they sure are on top of their parking tickets lulz.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 12 2018, @01:11AM
I would argue that EF's bigotry is pretty coherent. He pretty much despises everyone, with a little extra care lavished on Jews. His signal doesn't spatter all over the place, by heaping loving praise on anyone. It's just one continuous message of hate, and/or contempt.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday September 12 2018, @06:44AM
You forget the obvious third option, the one everyone used when we had a functioning civilization.
Vagrancy Laws. Seems especially needed in the Bay Area where they want to make laws limiting construction of new housing and demand far exceeds supply. There can't possibly be enough housing for those with the ability to pay, housing the homeless there is a stupid idea and allowing them to roam freely and shit in the streets is about the only idea dumber than trying to. Jail the homeless, After a round or two of being locked up they will go be homeless somewhere else.
It really is simple. An area can only safely support a finite number of people, especially if the voters have made an explicit decision to forbid new construction. Accept the consequences of those facts and the decisions of the voters. There can't be unlimited people there, despite the tech companies continuing to insist on headquartering there, and prices are going to be insane so only the 1% can live there. As to who is going to keep providing services to these Eloi, that is another question the voters there need to think about.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:11PM
I don't think it's fair to blame the homeless for shit-besmirched streets. India reduced their public defecation problem by sending all those H1Bs to California.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:27PM
I thought that's what starbucks was? Or maybe they are just supervised injection sites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:08AM
It's a mental health problem, not an education or lack of toilet problem.