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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: 5, Informative) by archfeld on Tuesday September 11 2018, @10:30PM (1 child)
There is some small data about heavy EMF exposure in general, but nothing that I am aware of involving 5G in particular. The people in the Mill Valley area are the epitome of XGener and Millennial Helicopter parents. There is no shortage of wireless and 3G/4G cell phone stuff but 5G BAD! We are constantly exposed to EMF in our natural environment in addition to manmade sources like high power generation and transmission.
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/about/WhatisEMF/en/index1.html [who.int]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by arslan on Wednesday September 12 2018, @03:19AM
So maybe the solution here for the telcos is to not call it 5G and call it 3.55G. Look, its less than 4G which you already have, so its safe to plunk the antenna! What the speed? That's just theoretical, everyone knows we never get that irl.