{"id":4370,"date":"2013-07-11T10:42:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:44:51","slug":"residents-fear-impact-of-cell-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4370","title":{"rendered":"Residents fear impact of cell tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B<span style=\"color: #000000;\">y Jeremy Nuttall, 24 hours Vancouver <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:47:21 PDT PM <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Residents elected not to phone in their complaints and showed up at Vancouver city council Tuesday to protest a cell tower being constructed in their neighbourhood.  About 20 people assembled in front of city hall with placards, then moved inside for the opening of the regular council meeting. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The residents are trying to stop a cell tower from going in behind a strip mall at 49th Avenue and Oak Street \u2014 something the residents only found out about earlier this year.  Kevin Hart represents the group and said the main concerns are unknown health effects and the process under which the tower was approved.  \u201cThey started building, the neighbours started asking questions,\u201d said Hart. \u201cAfter we started asking questions we finally got a letter from Telus to tell us what they are doing.\u201d  Coun. Adriane Carr put forth a motion at council Tuesday to change cell tower regulations in the city and make them more stringent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part of the motion would require public consultation for any tower, not just those taller than 15 metres \u2013 the tower in question measures 14.9 metres.  Carr\u2019s motion also suggests radio frequency emissions standards be 100 times below levels set out in Health Canada\u2019s Safety Code Six.  Hart said even with the proposed changes he hasn\u2019t been able to get any information from the city to indicate it\u2019s looking for other solutions for cell towers in the Vancouver.  \u201cCity hall is pretty clear that their mandate is to increase cellular coverage for the city at all costs,\u201d said Hart. \u201cWithout respect for the people who are paying the taxes in the city.\u201d  Carr\u2019s motion was referred to staff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.24hrs.ca\/2013\/07\/09\/residents-fear-impact-of-cell-tower\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/vancouver.24hrs.ca\/2013\/07\/09\/residents-fear-impact-of-cell-tower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citizensforsafetechnology.org\/Cell-Towers-in-West-Vanvouver,23,3238\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/citizensforsafetechnology.org\/Cell-Towers-in-West-Vanvouver,23,3238<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeremy Nuttall, 24 hours Vancouver Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:47:21 PDT PM Residents elected not to phone in their complaints and showed up at Vancouver city council Tuesday to protest a cell tower being constructed in their neighbourhood. About 20 people assembled in front of city hall with placards, then moved inside for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,28,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antenna","category-cell-tower","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}