I bet they let her carry around a cell phone tho!!!
Family worried about T-Mobile plans for cell tower
"We're going to move (if) that decision's already been made," he said.
The proposed 60-foot cell-phone tower would be erected in the 1900 block of Country Club Drive, a locale in the southern part of Redlands where palms and evergreens grow among stately homes with three-car garages.
City officials have yet to make a decision on the proposed tower.
The subject is scheduled to be discussed at 9 a.m. Monday at an Environmental Review Committee meeting.
The tower, if approved, would be disguised as a cypress tree.
But in Bishop's view, the neighborhood won't be so nice with a new cell tower.
He said he is worried about the potential health hazards associated with radio-frequency transmissions that would be broadcast from a new tower.
"There's a potential health effect. The debate is still ongoing," he said.
Bishop, a network manager at Loma Linda University, said the tower would be 104 feet from his home.
He predicted that other families with children would be reluctant to move into a house near a cell tower.
"You probably take 70 percent of the people that have children out of the market," Bishop said.
In the view of the American Cancer Society, cell-tower technology is too new for scientists to have conducted definitive research to determine if living near one poses long-term health risks.
The American Cancer Society cites the Food and Drug Administration's finding that at ground level, cell towers are unlikely to expose people to dangerous energy levels.
Omnipoint Communications, better known to consumers as T-Mobile, has proposed the cell tower.
Chris Eldridge of T-Mobile regional engineering said in a telephone interview Friday that people living near a cell tower would not be exposed to high levels of radio energy.
Although he did not have immediate access to the full report, he said broadcast consulting firm Hammett & Edison conducted a study that concluded that ground level exposures to radio frequencies near the planned cell tower would be 0.0027 of the federal government's maximum exposure level.
On Thursday, Bishop and a neighbor set up a booth at Market Night in downtown Redlands to collect signatures opposing the proposed tower.
He has also created a Web site, www.helpbrianna.org, that shows his daughter asking Web surfers to "help stop the radiation" and e-mail city officials in opposition to the tower.
Robert Dalquest, interim community development director, wrote in an e-mail that Monday's meeting to discuss the proposed tower was delayed from February so city officials could consider the views of people living near the site.
For a tower to be built, the Planning Commission would have to grant a permit for the project.
The City Council would also have to greenlight a lease agreement with T-Mobile.
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