On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:04:53 -0800, Yakov Chiu <chiuynospam@sbc.com>
wrote in <45569e34$0$4202$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com>:

>decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>
>> Getting approval is pretty much a trivial task now. Planning commissions
>> and home owners have no more recourses to deny an application.
>
>What the planning commission can't do, is to deny a cell tower permit on
>the basis of the alleged _health effects_. That's all that the
>Telecommunications Act of 1996 states. There are plenty of other reasons
>to deny a permit, including asthetics, that are still fair game for
>denying a permit.

Not true. See the text of Section 704 at
<http://njpo.org/features/wireless/sec704.htm>
and the FCC Fact Sheet at <http://wireless.fcc.gov/siting/fact1.html>

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