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Salas, Diana From: Personal <alxhillenbrand@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 1:27 AM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment for Agenda Item: SPECIAL PRESENTATION Wireless Telecommunication Facilities Attachments: EHT-City Ordinances -Small Cells.pdf; SG_What-You-Need-to-Know.pdf Dear Santa Ana City Council, It is with great concern that I write today expressing my opposition to the installation of new 5G cellular towers in the City of Santa Ana. Currently, there are no scientific studies proving that this new technology poses no risk to human health. While I believe a moratorium on 5G towers is the safest answer, I do understand that federal law prohibits such a moratorium based on health concerns. Therefore I ask that you join the dozens of cities around the nation who recognize the lack of adequate safety studies and have therefore enacted legislation to protect their citizens through zoning safeguards. Various municipalities and safeguards are listed in the attached document from the Environmental Health Trust titled "EHT-City Ordinances -Small Cells". Below are the most basic safeguards that I petition the council to implement immediately. I feel that these safeguards will at the very least protect families and children while residing at home and in schools. Installation of small cells on public utility easements in residential neighborhoods is prohibited 500 foot setbacks for small cells for multi -family residences in commercial districts 500 foot separation from schools 1500 foot separation between nodes I also petition the Council to call upon state and federal legislators to halt 5G installations until health risks are evaluated by sound science. The current authorization for deploying these 5G systems comes from the federal level and stems from the 1996 Telecommunications Act. This act declared wireless technologies to be safe and prohibits local governments from denying construction permits of wireless infrastructure based on health concerns. 5G systems are "small cell" and must be deployed by the hundreds, block by block, street pole by street pole. These cells will reside outside the windows of children's bedrooms as they sleep, in playgrounds, and in school yards. They will reside outside of the offices and shops of workers. They will emit electromagnetic energy at a scale never seen before, and this will happen everyday 24/7. We must convince ourselves that government studies conducted over 24 years ago cannot and should not serve as justification for the safety of these new cutting edge systems. I want to take a moment and explain that 5G technology is not an incremental step beyond 4G, rather it is a significantly large step. It is stepping from an energy intensity range between 1-8 GigaHertz, into a range between 28-60 GigaHertz (with some deployments up to 300 Ghz). Allow me to draw an analogy to sunbathing. Imagine 4G as your normal routine, say 1 hour at the beach and you are OK. Now imagine 5G as your new routine, where you are going to sunbathe instead for 7.5 hours. Would you safely assume that because you sunbathed for an hour and were fine, that you will be fine sunbathing for 7.5 hours? This is the concern with 5G. It is vastly more intense than the 4G systems we have been using.