DEAR EDITOR:
The City of Gilroy has recently decided to join the large and
rapidly expanding list of local governments that are choosing to
protect their citizens from exposure to broadcast radiation from
radio transmitters. Well, maybe.
DEAR EDITOR:
The City of Gilroy has recently decided to join the large and rapidly expanding list of local governments that are choosing to protect their citizens from exposure to broadcast radiation from radio transmitters. Well, maybe.
After more than a year of trying with endless petitions and meetings on Monday, Oct. 6, at our next City Council meeting, our elected representatives will decide whether or not to adopt a new city ordinance designed to protect Gilroy citizens.
This law isn’t perfect, and it does not go far enough to protect citizens of Gilroy as well as those that are protected in other nearby communities. But more than 1,000 local residents have written down their name, asking only that radiation from transmitters be kept a minimum safe distance from homes and schools.
San Benito County, next door to us, is poised to pass a very well thought out radiation abatement ordinance next week. You can make a difference in our town now, too. Just go to the City of Gilroy Web site and then leave a voicemail or an e-mail for our mayor and six city councilmen. This vote really matters!
We have a chance to have our own law, one that we asked for and created ourselves.
For me it’s mostly really simple. It’s about children. Keeping the little one’s that we love and care about safe from close range, long-term constant radiowave bombardment is all that matters.
And if you don’t agree with the radiological biochemistry that I study and work on, and you believe that some radiation in neighborhoods is safe, that’s your right. God Bless America.
But perhaps now we all can concur that with our new law, we’ll keep our town’s residential neighborhoods free from ugly towers and everyone’s property value doesn’t go down.
If the law finally passes, towers will just be required to go up on hilltops, or some safe distance from homes and schools. Some people disagree about how much electromagnetic broadcast energy actually is dangerous. Some others, like me, suspect that even small amounts of radiation might hurt some sensitive little kid’s bodies. Why argue? Let’s just be safe and not sorry someday? They’re kids.
Chris Cote, Gilroy
Submitted Sunday, Sept. 28 to ed****@****ic.com
