Hahaha. Hi Michael. My wife wants me to try to stay anonymous for fear that all the angry parents will shun our family over my disagreement on the health issue. Here's an email that I wrote to a friend who is concerned about this:
I don't think it's a safety issue. I think that's just the fear of the masses. Mountains out of molehills on that one. (There are cell towers everywhere and all the studies showing a correlation between health and proximity to cell towers, which are very few, do not show causation - which means that the studies base their findings on conjecture - just as the parents are doing).
However, there are some good arguments against it, which seem to be pushed toward the background. The best argument against, in my opinion, is that it will require access through the school playground, and perhaps a gravel pathway through the playground. The argument goes something like "We want to preserve the grounds as a playground - we don't want an accessway to the cell tower." And also "we don't want AT&T workers having access to the school grounds while school is underway - no other adults have this kind of access for safety reasons."
I don't know what the procedure is for this one. I'm not on the planning board anymore - which is why I can write to you about it. But if it does come before the planning board, I think those arguments (especially the first one) will be given a good amount of weight.
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