To: Monique De La Garza, CMC - City Clerk, Long Beach City Councli From: Pauline Afrasiabi
Email: [email protected]
Date: 10/17/22
Re: Long Beach City Council Meeting of 10/18/22
Agenda: Item 20-1228: re: Moira Hahn & Mark Hotchkiss:
4351 Clark Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90808-1414
Appeal re: placement of 4G/5G cell tower 25’ from the home Request for consideration under ADA per previous discussions/submissions from the residents and their attorneys/others. Permit #: PWRW48749.
This letter is being respectfully submitted, via email, to the Long Beach City Council regarding the above matter that will be placed before the council at the pending meeting.
For 18 years, I have been privileged to know Moira Hahn, dating back to when she was a highly respected Professor of Art and later Chair of the Art Department at Santiago Canyon College in Orange, CA. By background, I am a retired RN. Having said that, I can testify to the fact that Moira battled excruciating migraine headaches over many years.
As you now know very well from the documentation presented to you by her attorneys, Moira suffers from a legitimate medical condition, namely Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), with exacerbations inevitable from ‘regular’ Wi-Fi exposure (ie within the home or office), let alone the effects from the City/AT&T planned installation of the 4G/5G cell tower within 25 feet of their home. They have eliminated Wi-Fi communication from their residence.
This comes to request your humanitarian consideration of Moira Hahn’s appeal in this matter and to respectfully request that you seriously give all due consideration, under the ADA requirement and more. Surely, residents under your jurisdiction deserve a measure of compassion, especially when both Moira Hahn, Art Professor and Mark Hotchkiss, Engineer, have been LONG-TERM, tax paying residents of your community, contributing to society and building up a home that they love. How sad, if the decision to place the aforementioned cell tower cannot be reviewed, given a measure of human decency in the process and overturned.
For you on the committee it is just one more decision, of many.
For Moira and Mark it is life-changing, since it means being FORCED to move from the very home they have loved over years and in which they had planned to live out their retirement.
Please, please, reconsider.
Pauline Afrasiabi