Zoning

Start Here:  I’ll keep it quick.  7min for Action Items

HOW CAN YOU HELP:

1. Sign up yourself and your friends/family to speak for 3 minutes at the upcoming Boise Planning and Zoning Board Meeting Monday October 4th at 6PM. We need EVERYONE willing to speak to sign up at this link:

Zoom Signup Link

Referencing the permit number: ZOA21-00004

** You have till Monday at 12:00 PM to register for zoom. You can also testify in person.

Talking Points for Effective Testimony.  Planning and Zoning will be making their decision on the Goals Outlined in the Boise Blueprint.  Below find a list of Boise Blueprint Goals and talking point that give suggestion on why a Hardwired Broadband (DSL, Cable, Fiber) network is superior to a Wireless Broadband (4G & 5G) network.  Why it’s the clear choice for the City of Boise.  Pick a goal that inspires you and incorporate the specific goal into your testimony. Thank you!

IFST Boise Blueprint Talking Points

IFST Comments on Planning Recommendation to P&Z Talking Points

Boise City Council Elections – Nov 2, 2021.  The Wireless Ordinance will ultimately have to be approved by Boise City Council in a couple of months. Three Council seats are up for re-election.  Be bold and discuss this topic at every election debate and Q&A event. Vote for a candidate that supports a wireless zoning ordinances that protects the health and safety of it citizens rather than Verizon’s 5G network.  Boise City Council Election Info

Donate to Idahoans For Safe Technology!  We need to raise an additional $10,000 this year for educational and legal support.  IFST is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) – your donations are tax deductible. Donate Now

The Details:

1. Current Boise Wireless Zoning Ordinance

2. Proposed Draft Changes to Boise Wireless Zoning Ordinance. Stripped down to streamline the mass deployment of small-cell 5G towers every 500 feet in our neighborhoods.  This will take away all control from you, if one ends up in your front yard and makes you sick.  You must act now!

3. Boise Public Records for the Wireless Ordinance Changes. Once on the page for Record ZOA21-00004, click on the Record Info and Documents drop down menu and select Documents.  Céline Acord will be uploading public info here.
4. Our Idahoans for Safe Technology’s Wireless Ordinances Recommendations  We are requesting the new wireless ordinance add language that will protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare of City residents. Three simple things: 1. Prohibit small and macro cell towers in Residential and Schools Zones, 2. Require tower contractors to carry insurance that covers injuries from RF radiation, 3. New towers must pass a “Needs test” before approval.

5. Boise Planning & Zoning Cell Tower Meeting – CUP21-00015 – 06/14/2021  Watch Idahoans for Safe Technology as they request P&Z to deny an unneeded Cell Tower permit application.  Make your own decision; does Planning and Zoning care about public health and safety when it comes to RF Radiation? IFST’s written request for Cell Tower CUP Application Denial.

   1. Time Stamp 1.14.10 – to see 35’ Cell Tower Permit Applications

   2. Time Stamp 1.28.37 –  to see IFST objections to Cell Tower CUP Applications

   3. Time Stamp   1.58.46 – to see Boise P&Z Findings.  Must see…

6. Boise City Council Cell Tower Public Hearing Appeal – 8/31/21

   1. Time Stamp: 1.01.00 – to see IFST Cell Tower Appeal

   2. Time Stamp 1.09.34 – to see Boise City Council Decision

7. Boise City Council Cell Tower Public Hearing – Appeal – 11/17/2020.  Watch Idahoans for Safe Technology as they appeal a cell tower to the Boise City Council.  Is the Boise City Council more concerned about Public Health or Verizon’s bottom line?  Watch and decide for yourself..

   1. Time Stamp 1.31.40 – Start of Public Hearing

   2. Time Stamp 1.41.45 – Start of Idahoans for Safe Technologies Appeal

   3. Tme Stamp 2.49.00 – Verizon’s rebuttal
   4. Time Stamp 3.00.00 – Boise City Council decision
8. How to tame cell tower proliferation  Neighborhood Group Q&A with Leading Cell Tower Attorny Andrew Campanelli.
9. How to Prohibit Unnecessary 4G & 5G Cell Towers In Your City. More nuts and bolts details for you.

10. Reading the Law: 1996 Telecommunications Act.  The City hands are not tied.

FCC and Health:

1. Hank’s Eagle Cell Tower, AFIB & Dead Bee Story  This could happen to you.

2. 1,000+ Independent Studies on the Human Health effects from Wireless Radiation.  The FCC and the City of Boise have done nothing to protect you and your family from this danger.

3. The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) Radiofrequency Carcinogenicity Research Study. The world’s largest, most well-designed study of its type, at a cost of $25 million, found increased occurrence of rare brain tumors called gliomas in male rats and increases in nerve tumors called Schwannoma of the heart, thymus and mediastinum in both male and female rats exposed to RFR.  The FCC did nothing!  That’s one of many reasons they were sued by Childers Health Defense and  Environmental Health Trust.

4. CHD vs FCC – On Aug. 13, 2021 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled the FCC’s 2019 decision that its 1996 guidelines adequately protect the public from non-cancer harms from 5G and wireless-based technologies was capricious, arbitrary and not evidence-based.

5. The FCC is a captured agency of the Telecommunications industry.

Thank you and may God Bless the Great State of Idaho!