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Salas, Diana <br />From: timrush@bhhscaprops.com <br />Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:01 AM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Your council meeting of 5/19/20 Public Works presentation <br />RE; Utility Pole 5-G upgrades <br />Honorable Mayor & Members of the City Council; <br />This evening your public works department is to make a presentation regarding the installation of 5-G Antenna upgrades <br />around our city. I look forward to the hearing and learning more about this proposal. From what I have been told at <br />this point I must tell you that I am very disturbed......... <br />It is my understanding that there are to be..... <br />1. At least one upgrade per block <br />2. The city is to receive on the order of $50,000 per pole <br />3. These will be installed not just in neighborhoods but on many traffic signal poles and street light standards. <br />4. As far as I can tell based upon a cursory level of conversation with neighborhood leaders.....no input has been <br />asked. <br />In looking at the pole "upgrades" (that is a misnomer if I ever heard one!) at Richland and Parton ...... OMG this is a <br />Frankenstein/erector set of a utility pole. To impose this level of visual offense to every block in the city <br />is unimaginable. Keep in mind the Federal Government already has assaulted every neighborhood by mandating that <br />we cannot interfere or restrict the installation of the God awful satellite dishes (on some houses and apartment <br />buildings as many as four, five, even a dozen. So now we get more of this visual blight?? <br />Why are we not demanding faux palm trees or pine trees to hide them? How much of this money will be given back to <br />local neighborhoods to offset this visual blight by doing park, parkway or other permanent aesthetic improvements?? <br />This needs further study and input from Comm -Link, neighborhood leaders, HRC, Planning commissions. <br />Irvine looks clean and neat because they care about the aesthetics of their city......... we need to pay attention to ours. <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br />Respectfully, <br />Tim Rush <br />Historic Wilshire Square <br />7 <br />