The city council officially rejected the lease agreement for the Strawberry Mountain tower. Seeing our community protect our skyline and our home this way feels incredible, and I am so grateful to everyone who stepped up to stop this project.
November 29, 2020
Final supporters
To our White Salmon neighbors, Gorge residents and friends and caretakers of the Gorge community:
As you may have heard, the city of White Salmon is considering leasing a section of land, at the top of Strawberry Mountain, to a multi-national corporation with the intention of erecting a large cell tower.
We are greatly concerned about this for a number of reasons:
- Significant Health Risks: Cell towers emit non-stop radio frequency causing radiation, posing health risks to residents living in close proximity to the tower
- Decrease in property values for local residents
- Aesthetic disruption to the scenery throughout the Gorge: The tower will be visible throughout White Salmon, Hood River and all along highways 84 and 14
- Losing our rights: Once built, cell towers can go up an additional 20 feet - without community consent
- Illegal subdivision of City property: This section of land is zoned for residential use only
- Outside of code-permitted height of all structures permitted in the residential zone
Please help us protect the Gorge and the national scenic area by signing the petition below and asking your friends and neighbors to do the same.
For additional information on the proposed cell tower, as well as the negative impact that it will have in the Gorge, please review the letter from James Kacena, White Salmon Business and Real Estate Attorney.
Updates
September 6, 2020
Seeing 250 names on this list feels surreal because looking up at Strawberry Mountain reminds me every day how much we have to lose. I never imagined this many neighbors would step up to protect our view and our homes from this tower.
Reached 250 supporters
September 4, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
August 29, 2020
August 27, 2020
Seeing the count climb toward one hundred shows how many of us refuse to let Strawberry Mountain be ruined by this tower. Please send the link to one neighbor today to help us cross this threshold while the city is still listening.
107 Comments
This petition is a summary of the letter sent to the city on behalf of Strawberry Mountain residents. The full letter can, and should, be viewed by clicking the link at the bottom of this petition. You will find a more comprehensive list of our reasons to sign this petition.
The FCC will give US Cellular the power to add to this tower if we give them this lease option. All the rules the city has in place to protect its citizens will be mute and we will lose control of our rules. This is a bad idea!!
The city has no concern for those of us that live on Strawberry Mountain. They rubber stamped annexation of our property into the city limits with no public comment. We were not even allowed to speak on an issue we opposed that affected us directly. If this is allowed to happen they won’t stop there. It will be an eyesore as well. NO TO THIS.
As a nearby resident, a cell tower is not a good idea in the middle of a residential area. These towers are important but should be placed on ridges outside of town such as Bedoin Mountain!
"Cell companies are entitled to good coverage, not perfect coverage. Sometimes a more suitable and appropriate location may provide slightly less coverage, but nonetheless adequate coverage." If a cell tower is inevitable, it should not be within a residential neighborhood.
No cell phone tower
Do your research. No one should have this anywhere near them.
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The city council officially rejected the lease agreement for the Strawberry Mountain tower. Seeing our community protect our skyline and our home this way feels incredible, and I am so grateful to everyone who stepped up to stop this project.
November 29, 2020
Final supporters
To our White Salmon neighbors, Gorge residents and friends and caretakers of the Gorge community:
As you may have heard, the city of White Salmon is considering leasing a section of land, at the top of Strawberry Mountain, to a multi-national corporation with the intention of erecting a large cell tower.
We are greatly concerned about this for a number of reasons:
- Significant Health Risks: Cell towers emit non-stop radio frequency causing radiation, posing health risks to residents living in close proximity to the tower
- Decrease in property values for local residents
- Aesthetic disruption to the scenery throughout the Gorge: The tower will be visible throughout White Salmon, Hood River and all along highways 84 and 14
- Losing our rights: Once built, cell towers can go up an additional 20 feet - without community consent
- Illegal subdivision of City property: This section of land is zoned for residential use only
- Outside of code-permitted height of all structures permitted in the residential zone
Please help us protect the Gorge and the national scenic area by signing the petition below and asking your friends and neighbors to do the same.
For additional information on the proposed cell tower, as well as the negative impact that it will have in the Gorge, please review the letter from James Kacena, White Salmon Business and Real Estate Attorney.
Updates
September 6, 2020
Seeing 250 names on this list feels surreal because looking up at Strawberry Mountain reminds me every day how much we have to lose. I never imagined this many neighbors would step up to protect our view and our homes from this tower.
Reached 250 supporters
September 4, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
August 29, 2020
August 27, 2020
Seeing the count climb toward one hundred shows how many of us refuse to let Strawberry Mountain be ruined by this tower. Please send the link to one neighbor today to help us cross this threshold while the city is still listening.
107 Comments
The city needs to comply with its own regulations, full stop. White Salmon needs another blinking red light in its night sky like the Columbia River needs more dams. It needs to follow the same regs it expects all landowners to obey!
This petition is a summary of the letter sent to the city on behalf of Strawberry Mountain residents. The full letter can, and should, be viewed by clicking the link at the bottom of this petition. You will find a more comprehensive list of our reasons to sign this petition.
The FCC will give US Cellular the power to add to this tower if we give them this lease option. All the rules the city has in place to protect its citizens will be mute and we will lose control of our rules. This is a bad idea!!
The city has no concern for those of us that live on Strawberry Mountain. They rubber stamped annexation of our property into the city limits with no public comment. We were not even allowed to speak on an issue we opposed that affected us directly. If this is allowed to happen they won’t stop there. It will be an eyesore as well. NO TO THIS.
As a nearby resident, a cell tower is not a good idea in the middle of a residential area. These towers are important but should be placed on ridges outside of town such as Bedoin Mountain!
"Cell companies are entitled to good coverage, not perfect coverage. Sometimes a more suitable and appropriate location may provide slightly less coverage, but nonetheless adequate coverage." If a cell tower is inevitable, it should not be within a residential neighborhood.
No cell phone tower
Do your research. No one should have this anywhere near them.
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The city needs to comply with its own regulations, full stop. White Salmon needs another blinking red light in its night sky like the Columbia River needs more dams. It needs to follow the same regs it expects all landowners to obey!