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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."
Also at HardOCP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11 2018, @11:31PM (1 child)
^^ Pointless bile from a Soylent regular.
If there are a lot of people like you, no wonder so many don't have friends...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by anubi on Wednesday September 12 2018, @12:39AM
Actually, I respect Mill Valley for finding the lifestyle they are comfortable with, and defending it.
I've been doing the same with my technology for years... I resist things I do not understand. All this brohuahua over intellectual property and making it hard for me to understand how my stuff works has me on edge too, and I really hate to buy something I can't verify, and trust it with anything.
So, Mill Valley says "good enough is good enough", well good for them.
I sure was happy enough with a much simpler web design too.
And that's one thing that this good old place shares with Mill Valley. ...
Just because "everyone else" ( according to the pitchmen ) is doing something ( such as adopting irritating scripting technologies ), doesn't mean WE have to do it too.
Mill Valley sounds to me like an ideal place to retire... but I seriously doubt I could afford to live there. Many rich people will stand up to pitchmen, and tell 'em to simply buzz off, as they have plenty of resources already, and aren't easily influenced by pitchmen who act more like street-smart shell-gamers, trying to involve me in their game.
Savings! Savings! Savings! Where's the Savings? Think you know? Place your dollar right here. Step right on up, Folks. Savings!... swish, swish, swish, sorry, it was over there... care to try again? You saw how its done, you are sure to win! Step right on up... place your dollar! ( Also known as "Investment Advice" )
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]