the website of the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association

To provide some background for the November 1st T-Moble meeting at Dunniway Grade School in the cafeteria at 7pm, here are some facts about this installation:

1) This cellular antenna placement location, that will only help T-Moble Customers in Eastmoreland, was opposed by the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association in the Fall of 2008.
2) Both T-Moble and the Portland City Office (formerly called the Office of Cable and Franchise Management  and now renamed as the Office of Community Technology) decided to not develop the site in 2009 - even when contacted a year later in 2010 to confirm their prior decision(s).
3) This site has a planned antenna to be pointed directly at the second floor of a family home at under 50 feet. With the increased wireless traffic of current technology phones, there is no accurate research or current scientific consensus as to whether this technology is environmentally safe to be residing less than 50 feet from the antenna emitter.
4) While all streets surrounding our neighborhood are categorized as a level 4 (the last category of a Portland city street to have an antenna placement), there are better placement alternatives for wireless communication facilities to be placed for singular or multiple antenna installations.

A feasible alternative that needs to be voiced at any Portland city cellular antenna placement meeting would be the following:

The best alternative for everyone would be to place an antenna structure, disguised as a tree, on the west side of the 9th hole of the Eastmoreland Public Golf course. This structure would:

• be far from homes and would create a safe "boundary" around the antennas.
• The signal would spread out from the tower so that concentrated cellar communication traffic would be nowhere near children's bedrooms, like the current option.
• The equipment box that would require a rather loud cooling system, that would be on during warmer days when people are more likely to be outside, could be placed in the ground and not bother golfers.
• Perhaps the funds that would be collected by multiple cellular communications companies could go to help the Portland City Office of Parks and Recreation as well as support other offices and city programs.

Thanks for your support!
The Gillespie Nebert family