Wireless communication requires lots of antennas. Should there be antennas in Bicentennial Park?
The ski jumps proposed as an antenna site are just south of Hilltop Ski Area off Abbott Road near the curve onto Hillside Drive.
The following is a copy of an email forwarded by Pixie Siebe
from Assemblyman Doug VanEtten August 13, 2001
I have learned, Tobben, that you need
to have the answer before asking a question of Posey or anyone
else in the Administration. So, if you will tell me who at BLM
gave the interpretation, I will call them to get verification and
see where we may want to, or be able to, go from there.
Just off the top of my head though, I have to be a little
concerned about who and what may want to enter the parks and in
what ways if we open this can of sardines. You know that AT&T
needs a network of, I think the ultimate number maybe as high as 80
towers scattered around town. That scares me a little. And they
are just one operator.
But, get me the BLM information and I will see what I can learn/
do.
Doug Van Etten
At 04:42 PM 8/10/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Doug
Remember AT&T's proposal to mount
cellphone antennas on the skijump and pay the Skiclub $12,000 per
year for 20 years?
The Muni (Posey) originally rejected
the idea due to incompatibility with the transfer covenants from
BLM. BLM has informed us and Posey that that
assessment was not correct and that BLM will allow this proposal
with some restrictions. It is now four months
since BLM informed us about this, but Posey has not been able to
OK the agreement with because "it is tied up in legal"
Last year we did not have a jumping
program because we did not have a joint use agreement with the
Muni, lack of snow and lack of money. The snow we can
not do much about, but we should be able to obtain a joint
use agreement and a co sponsorship of the program. The
Administration have the opportunity to show that it can work with
civic organisations to the benefit of the whole
community. If Posey is not able to OK this
AT&T proposal and at the same time formulate a joint use
agreement that we can live with, the skijumping program
will cease. The result of that is that Posey will become
the proud owner of a real attractive nuicance that will not be
easy to remove.
Can you put a firecracker under
somebody's butt so we can get ready for this season,
Tobben