Prevent the Horizon 70' Stealth Monopine Cell Tower near Kleiner Park!

Please sign this petition to stop the Horizon 70' Stealth Monopine cell phone tower from being built at 12624 W Fairview Ave, Boise, ID 83713. The tower will be in the close proximity to the quiet residential neighborhood, churches and to the beautiful Kleiner Park which is enjoyed by so many people. The installation of the tower poses health risks and devaluation of real estate, and the residents already have adequate cell phone/wireless data coverage in the area. The plan to build the tower will affect many of the nearby residents, animals and natural habitats.

A neighborhood meeting to answer any questions regarding this project will be held at 5:30 pm Friday, April 5th, at 12624 W Fairview Ave, Boise, ID 83713 directly behind "Amazing Changes". Please attend to voice your opposition to this installation.

Please feel free to contact Zachary Williams at 208-938-8844 and let him know it does not need to be anywhere near Kleiner Park.

We are strongly opposed to the installation of the tower for the following reasons:

1. Potential health risks to adults and pets – Cell phone towers emit low-level microwave radiation distances of at least 500 meters or 1640 feet.

Horizon stated that its proposed installation will comply with FCC regulations on microwave radiation levels (The current safety standards were developed in 1993 and based on a 200+lb adult man). This ignores the existing microwave radiation levels in the area from existing cell phone towers and transmitters.

Studies have shown that even at low levels of this radiation (one tower), there is evidence of damage to cell tissue and DNA, and it has been linked to brain tumors, cancer, suppressed immune function, depression, miscarriage, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other serious illnesses.

For example, in "The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer" by Horst Eger, Klaus Uwe Hagen, Birgitt Lucas, Peter Vogel, Helmut Voit (Published in Umwelt·Medizin·Gesellschaft 17,4 in 2004), the researchers found a fourfold increase in cancer rates amongst people living within 350 meters of a cell phone tower. Amongst women there was a tenfold increase.

In 2011, The World Health Organization (WHO)/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified EMR (microwave radiation) as a possible carcinogen to humans (the same classification as DDT and lead) based on an increased risk for glioma (a malignant type of brain cancer).

In 2015, Morgan, Miller, Sasco and Davies published a paper in the International Journal of Oncology titled "Mobile phone radiation causes brain tumors and should be classified as a probable human carcinogen (2A)." The title says it all in this case.

In the past five years alone, about 1,800 new scientific papers have been published that show adverse health effects. Dr. George Carlo, a public health expert who coordinated the telecommunications industry's own study, which was mandated by congress, confirms that exposure to communications radiation from wireless technology is "potentially the biggest health insult" this nation has ever seen. Dr. Carlo believes RF/microwave radiation is a greater threat than cigarette smoking and asbestos.

2. Potential health risks to children – The Meridian area has a large number of young families. During other Cell Tower meetings these companies present expert witness who testify that children are at no greater risk from cell phone tower radiation than adults. There is robust evidence that this statement is false. Children have thinner skulls and the immaturity of their central nervous systems puts them more at risk. See, for example, Morgan, Kesari, and Davis, 2014, "Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences", published in the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure.

3. The devaluation of real estate. In March, 2014 the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy's survey "Neighborhood Cell Towers & Antennas—Do They Impact a Property's Desirability?" found that an overwhelming majority of respondents (94%) reported that cell towers and antennas in a neighborhood or on a building would impact interest in a property and the price they would be willing to pay for it.

Studies by Dr. Sandy Bond, Ph.D. have shown that a cell phone tower negatively affects the real estate values of homes surrounding it. Depending on proximity to the cell phone tower property values can be reduced by up to 20% for properties within 200-300 meters of the tower (See for example http://www.clarkdale.az.gov/2015_Meetings/2015_Council/2015-05-12_Council_Regular/Public_Comment_Rcd_Karen_Daniels.pdf

Reduced Property Values

Many residents do not want decreased property values caused by an unnecessary cell phone tower, and we hope that the people in this area of Meridian wouldn't want the value of homes to fall substantially as such a decrease would be accompanied by a significant decline in property tax revenues.

4. Residents already have adequate cell phone and wireless data coverage in the area and so we don't need a new cellular tower. Googe's website's coverage map shows complete coverage in this area, with no gaps. There is not a real enough "need" to warrant putting the residents in this area at risk for health problems or a decrease in their property values.

5. A 70-foot tower is incompatible with the neighborhood aesthetics. The antenna will be in the close proximity to the quiet residential neighborhood, senior citizens center, churches and to the beautiful Kleiner Park which is enjoyed by so many children and adults alike.

WE NEED EVERYONE TO COME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON FRIDAY, April 5 at 5:30PM at 12624 W Fairview Ave, Boise, ID 83713 directly behind "Amazing Changes". Please attend to voice your opposition to this installation.