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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Tracy Appleton on 5G Tower Placement Concerns
3:09:25
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125 sec
Tracy Appleton expresses serious concerns about the placement of a 5G tower outside her daughter's bedroom window, echoing previous testimony about community dissatisfaction with the deployment process. She highlights the lack of updated FCC regulations and the potential health risks associated with proximity to these towers.
- Appleton cites a specific case (Environmental Health Trust v FCC) where the FCC was instructed to update its rules in 2021 but has not done so.
- She emphasizes the need for better placement of 5G towers, suggesting alternative locations that could minimize potential risks to residents.
- While supporting the goal of universal utility access, Appleton argues for a more thoughtful approach that doesn't put innocent people at risk.
Tracy Appleton
3:09:25
Thank you so much to the committee for your time.
3:09:27
Thank you, chairperson Gutierrez.
3:09:30
My name is Tracy Appleton.
3:09:32
I just want to echo what mister Chan said.
3:09:34
I believe he he captured it perfectly about how the community feels.
3:09:39
Mr.
3:09:39
Ressler is my representative, and I really appreciate him speaking out.
3:09:44
We live at 54 Norman Avenue.
3:09:46
My husband, Ari Hoenig, is here as well.
3:09:49
Outside of our window, they've built one of these five g towers.
3:09:52
To be more precise, outside my daughter's window, who's 12 going on 13, the tower is supposedly 10 feet away.
3:10:02
It sure doesn't look it.
3:10:03
It has a sticker on it that says don't come in within seven feet of this, and that's for people who work at it for an hour, for a few minutes.
3:10:10
She lives in that room.
3:10:11
And I fully believe that if you show these systems to be healthy or to be okay for people or there were studies done, I would have no problem.
3:10:21
But as was mentioned before, the FCC was these very rules that they were being applied now were up for debate in 2019, and there's a case, I'll read nine f four eight ninety three, that's Environmental Health Trust v FCC.
3:10:36
That's the case that was referred to before where the FCC was told in 2021 to update their sit their rules, and
Irene Byhovsky
3:10:43
they have done nothing in
Tracy Appleton
3:10:44
the last four years.
3:10:44
Chairman Gutierrez, who started this discussion about how angry you were that you had to wait two or three years for something to change, they haven't done anything in four years.
3:10:52
So we have regulations that haven't that were based on science twenty years ago.
3:10:57
They don't know what these towers do, and one of them is right outside my daughter's window.
3:11:01
And as mister Chan said, if they'd spoken to us, if you look from our corner, you go one corner over, there's a building that is only a first floor building.
3:11:09
There's nothing above it.
3:11:11
This tower is right outside my daughter's window, and she went directly outside.
3:11:15
I don't think there was any thought to where it was put.
3:11:18
I I'm not saying let's tear down this whole system.
3:11:20
I'm saying let's put these things in places where we're not putting people at risk.
3:11:23
I do want everyone to have utilities.
3:11:25
I do think that that's important, but it shouldn't be run over people who are innocent and have no chance to defend themselves.