In response to “$25 Million Santa Monica College Malibu Campus Construction Will Begin in August, Run Two Years” published on April 12.
The news about the Santa Monica College campus and new sheriff’s office is lovely, especially with the amount of trees going in, but did readers notice the extremely large Verizon “communications” tower secreted into the left of the architect’s drawing on page A5 [of The Malibu Times]?
As far as I know, there has been no public discussion of this object, even though the city has reportedly been negotiating with SMC, Verizon and LA County over “environmental testing.” What, pray tell, has that consisted of?
The LA County Fire Department had a huge fight a couple of years ago to dissuade blanket implementation of towers on station roofs—1,700 of them. The county had somehow received a grant for a $175 million contract with Motorola Solutions and just thought they could barge right in …
Cell towers are associated with DNA interruptions, memory loss and brain fog, extreme fatigue, headaches, depression, anxiety, brain and heart cancers, and various neurological diseases (from a 2013 study on firefighters exposed to towers). The World Health Organization has classified radio frequency from cell towers and other wireless facilities/devices as a Class 2-B “possible human carcinogen,” after reviewing studies linking brain cancer to RF/wireless exposure.
This tower is going to be on top of the sheriff’s station (the aforementioned emergency services), above the college classrooms, blasting our Chili Cook-Off Ferris Wheel and parents’ wine enclosure, beaming across Legacy Park through the Malibu Library, the Civic Center, Whole Foods, dentists’ offices, Taverna Tony’s, Malibu Racquet Club, the apartment buildings on the mesa and, last but not least, the wait-in-line at the Webb Way signal, carrying elementary school kids round-trip to Webster and Our Lady of Malibu schools.
Are you sure you want to let this slip by without a major protest?
Beate Nilsen