It turned out to be a study commissioned by Sprint Spectrum to be submitted in the record before Medina's Planning Commission. Since it involved a currently existing lattice tower in Medina used for a microwave dish, we were able to send one of concerned citizens to all of the homes used as comparables and she testified at the hearing that you could not even see the tower from any of these homes. Because it was too late to commission another study, we brought in all of the real estate agents and brokers who were active in the community to testify that a 100 foot lattice tower would have a negative affect on surrounding property values. In addition, the Planning Commission made a finding that just common sense dictated that a home with a beautiful view of Mt. Rainier and Lake Washington would be adversely affected by imposing any significant portion of a lattice tower on this view. Hopefully, non-industry appraisals will be available in the near future showing that tall towers have a negative affect on property values.
Cellular providers are more than capable today of moving traffic along each other's traffic.
Cellular phones work not suprisingly based upon a system of cells. They hand the traffic from one cell to the next as your car moves in and out of the cell's range. Existing wireless phone companies already have agreements amongst each other to cover the other's traffic. In other words, if you move out of one carrier's area but into an area where another carrier has coverage, your call can be handed off and carried by the other carrier until you move back into the initial carrier's range. Why not seek to meet growth and future services demand without having to build unnecessary towers by fostering a dialog among the cellular providers and encouraging, or requiring, them to share in these handoffs.