East Washington Street Cell Tower: Ramona Call to Action

Would you want a cell tower right by your house? Do you know being close to cell towers can destroy health and property values? That cell tower radiation is linked to deadly cancers? This is about to happen on Washington Street unless Ramona residents take action!

Learn about how a cell tower in a residential neighborhood ruined one California couple's lives. "Stalked by a Cell Tower: "It's Been a Nightmare". In Ripon, CA, a small school cell tower has been shut off and is being removed by Sprint, after 9 people in close proximity came down with cancers: 4 school children, 3 teachers, and 2 preschoolers living nearby.

The first meeting was held on May 3, 2018, and this Washington Street cell tower was not recommended by the Ramona Community Planning Group (RCPG). However, changes were then made in the plans. The RCPG recommendations do not determine whether the cell tower will be built, but provide input from the community for the San Diego County Planning Dept. and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, who will make the final decisions.

Another meeting was held Dec. 6, 2018. Item 8-E: Informational Item: MUP 18-005. Update on AT&T Proposal for a new unmanned wireless facility at 374 Washington St: 35 foot faux tree; proposed 9 foot, 4 inches by 26 feet, 8 inches CMU enclosure; 12 new antennas; 24 new RRU’s; 4 surge protectors; 6 filters; one diesel generator 15 KW. Consideration of site and design alternatives.

Check out the Ramona Sentinel article from January 2019 on this Washington Street cell tower application, which continues to move along.The application is still active and the next step is a meeting on April 5th in Kearny Mesa with the County Planning Department, which can approve the plan, or not, and then send to the County Board of Supervisors for their consideration and final vote. County Planners and County Supervisors need to hear from all those concerned about maintaining health and property values in Ramona!

The problems:

• Increase in dangerous electrosmog pollution in Ramona
• Hazardous microwave radiation emissions that can sicken nearby residents according to non-industry experts
• The tower should be located in a preferred location and zone which is industrial or commercial. Cell towers don't belong in residential neighborhoods.
• This is on a private road, reportedly with a number of neighbors very close to the proposed tower, some within 100 - 300+ feet
• It doesn't matter how you disguise these towers, they do not fit into the rural aesthetic and community character of Ramona.
• No demonstrated gap in coverage in this neighborhood according to testimony; no benefit except to the prospective cell site owner
• Property values decline. Who moves to Ramona to live next to a cell tower? Prospective home buyers will want to pay considerably less (up to 30% less) or not buy in the area at all, according to real estate research
• Potential for disruptive noise

What can you do to help stop this unnecessary, hazardous cell tower?

1. Attend this County Planning Dept meeting:

County Operations Center (COC) Hearing Room, 5520 Overland,

San Diego, CA 92123.

Friday April 5, 2019 9:00am be there by 8:45, sign up to speak

2. If you can’t attend please write a letter of opposition that the members of the planning commission can read before the hearing.

Subject line: 04/05/19 AGENDA OPPOSITION TO EAST WASHINGTON RAMONA CELL TOWER

First line of the letter:

Please place this email/letter into the public record for the 04/05/19 Agenda Item: AT&T East Washington Wireless Telecommunication Facility Major Use Permit; PDS2018-MUP-18-005

Email to: (Deputy Director County Planning Dept.) rami.talleh@sdcounty.ca.gov and jerae.bailey@sdcounty.ca.gov

Sample letter:

Center for Electrosmog Prevention, a 501c3 nonprofit

Ramona, CA

Resource links:

http://www.electrosmogpreventi...

https://ehtrust.org/science/ce...

https://ehtrust.org/cell-phone...

https://www.sandiegouniontribu...

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/...