RESIDENTS WIN
ON FEB 5th, T-MOBILE OFFICIALS met with NorthWest Glendale residents and announced that they are withdrawing plans to build a 34' cell tower on Cumberland Road in Glendale.
OUTSIDE AFTER THE MEETING, residents who worked tirelessly to stop the tower construction exchange hugs, high-fives and felt elated at the victory, which residents called a 'dogfight' with multi-national T-Mobile.
THEIR STORY BEGAN IN NOVEMBER OF 2008, when several residents discovered that Glendale Public Works, in conjunction with T-Mobile, was planning to erect a 3-story tower five feet in front of a home on Cumberland Road in NW Glendale. The contruction came with little or no notice, but residents quickly formed a community activist group called GO ACT (Glendale Organized Against Cell Towers). The group approached Glendale City Council and gained a 'stop work order' on the project.
Over the intervening 3 months, GO ACT quickly gained the attention of the community and Council through a media blitz that included t-shirts, 5 different lawn signs, appearances on KFI Radio, ABC 7 TV, NBC 4 TV, and the Glendale News Press.
In January, the Mayor allowed the group to present at City Council for 35 minutes, during which the organizers, dressed in business suits and flanked by supporters clad in white and red GO ACT T-shirts, crowded city hall, forcing chairs to be set up downstairs. The group presented a powerpoint exhibit, complete with dozens of exhibits maligning T-Mobile for its poor corporate citizenship and detailing legal cases that supported a new city ordinance.
With a 5-0 vote, Council approved a city-wide moritorium, during which Glendale would write a new wireless ordiance.
But GO ACT continued to press the issue during this time-off period, getting new signs up, appearing on Cable Access and coverig the Pasadena Weekly. On February 5th, T-Mobile officials decided it had enough and met with residents, getting feedback about how things could have evolved differently in a civil, constructive meeting at a local hotel in Glendale.
OUTSIDE AFTER THE MEETING, residents who worked tirelessly to stop the tower construction exchange hugs, high-fives and felt elated at the victory, which residents called a 'dogfight' with multi-national T-Mobile.
THEIR STORY BEGAN IN NOVEMBER OF 2008, when several residents discovered that Glendale Public Works, in conjunction with T-Mobile, was planning to erect a 3-story tower five feet in front of a home on Cumberland Road in NW Glendale. The contruction came with little or no notice, but residents quickly formed a community activist group called GO ACT (Glendale Organized Against Cell Towers). The group approached Glendale City Council and gained a 'stop work order' on the project.
Over the intervening 3 months, GO ACT quickly gained the attention of the community and Council through a media blitz that included t-shirts, 5 different lawn signs, appearances on KFI Radio, ABC 7 TV, NBC 4 TV, and the Glendale News Press.
In January, the Mayor allowed the group to present at City Council for 35 minutes, during which the organizers, dressed in business suits and flanked by supporters clad in white and red GO ACT T-shirts, crowded city hall, forcing chairs to be set up downstairs. The group presented a powerpoint exhibit, complete with dozens of exhibits maligning T-Mobile for its poor corporate citizenship and detailing legal cases that supported a new city ordinance.
With a 5-0 vote, Council approved a city-wide moritorium, during which Glendale would write a new wireless ordiance.
But GO ACT continued to press the issue during this time-off period, getting new signs up, appearing on Cable Access and coverig the Pasadena Weekly. On February 5th, T-Mobile officials decided it had enough and met with residents, getting feedback about how things could have evolved differently in a civil, constructive meeting at a local hotel in Glendale.
http://www.getthecelloutofhere.com/
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