The Thurston County Board of
Commissioners in Washington, approved a Verizon application for an
150-foot monopole near Lake Lawrence, WA. An opposing neighborhood group
called Citizens Against 5G Cell Towers filed a motion to appeal the
decision on January 17, 2019, Nisqually Valley News reported.
Citizens Against 5G Cell Towers was
formed from members of the now retired Deschutes Neighborhood Group,
which previously appealed the Thurston County Hearing Examiner’s
decision to move forward with the tower in 2016. Both neighborhood
groups share the same goal, to protect the wildlife around the tower
site by halting construction on it.
In their appeal, President of
Citizens Against 5G, David Runnels, wrote the tower would have a harmful
environmental impact on the area, and that the hearing examiner omitted
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