A group of residents is fighting to stop the placement of cell phone antennas in Turtle Rock. The proposed antennas are completely unobtrusive. Sprint wants to hang them on street lights and most everyone wouldn't not even notice them (see the photos at <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/turtlerocktowers/">www.freewebs.com/turtlerocktowers/ ).</a> There's an Irvine city council meeting tomorrow (tuesday) at 4 pm, if you want your voice heard.
Bad cell phone coverage in Turtle Rock? Here's why!
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bkshopr_IHB
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Cell phone towers are not intrusive if designed properly. In fact the antenna receptors and transmitters are not that big. The system consists of 3 receptors places at 120 degree apart thus forming a perfect equilateral triangle in plan view. The entire assemble fit into a circle. The biggest draw back is the required height that it needed to transmit and receive signals. Most of the sites are effective for 6 miles radius then another site would take over. The scaffold is architecturally uninspiring and many residents object to it visually.
Over the years cell phone companies have devised numerous methods or mounting their equipments. The most cost effective is to mounting it on to a tall pole on the top of a building higher than the near by structures. They can utilize existing structures for height. The cell phone company pays rent to the property landlord. Government own land such as the land strip immediate adjacent to both sides of the freeway are out of the jurisdiction of the local citizens. Cell phone companies targeted these lands first before they would target the tougher locations in master planned communities.
The most common are the fake trees along the freeway. There are 3 kinds of trees being used and they are pine, palm and spruce. There is a highly visible fake palm tree behind the commercial property near the Tustin Curtain Call and Dining Theatre in Tustin going freeway 5 north bound. There is another fake Spruce tree on going south bound on the 405 freeway between Fairview and Bristol. Citizens have complained about the lone palm in Tustin and the company is adding a few real palms next to the fake one to disguise the obvious one.
Antennas can also be housed inside an enclosed tower but behind a special fiberglass that could be finished in varieties of texture like stucco or polished aluminum and painted high gloss that allows for signal transmission. Triangular towers or square towers are high suspect of hidden transmitter location. The triangular tower behind a strip office complex next to the Culver off ramp Freeway 5 north bound is a cell tower. The triangular fiber optic obelisk sign at the Irvine Spectrum Entertainment Center was deliberately designed as cell tower and project monument. Another obelisk is located way out there along the 241 toll road by Portola Spring. Antennas were also mounted at the Shady Canyon Club House tower as well as the brick towers at Woodbury. The one in Shady Canyon belongs to Verizon. Cingular is trying desperately for one in Turtle Rock since Shady is not allowing a second cell site due to citizens’ rejection. Cingular lost most of the Turtle Rock, Shady Canyon and Turtle Rock consumers.
Although TIC is very thorough to incorporate cell towers in their architectural landmark and monumentation but that is not really enough to satisfy many cell phone carriers. Cell phone companies also mandate there must be no mounting of competitions’ antenna within certain required distance as to insure its monopoly of the community coverage.
I do not object to the cell site as long as it is tastefully obscurely and well integrated into an architectural landmark.
Over the years cell phone companies have devised numerous methods or mounting their equipments. The most cost effective is to mounting it on to a tall pole on the top of a building higher than the near by structures. They can utilize existing structures for height. The cell phone company pays rent to the property landlord. Government own land such as the land strip immediate adjacent to both sides of the freeway are out of the jurisdiction of the local citizens. Cell phone companies targeted these lands first before they would target the tougher locations in master planned communities.
The most common are the fake trees along the freeway. There are 3 kinds of trees being used and they are pine, palm and spruce. There is a highly visible fake palm tree behind the commercial property near the Tustin Curtain Call and Dining Theatre in Tustin going freeway 5 north bound. There is another fake Spruce tree on going south bound on the 405 freeway between Fairview and Bristol. Citizens have complained about the lone palm in Tustin and the company is adding a few real palms next to the fake one to disguise the obvious one.
Antennas can also be housed inside an enclosed tower but behind a special fiberglass that could be finished in varieties of texture like stucco or polished aluminum and painted high gloss that allows for signal transmission. Triangular towers or square towers are high suspect of hidden transmitter location. The triangular tower behind a strip office complex next to the Culver off ramp Freeway 5 north bound is a cell tower. The triangular fiber optic obelisk sign at the Irvine Spectrum Entertainment Center was deliberately designed as cell tower and project monument. Another obelisk is located way out there along the 241 toll road by Portola Spring. Antennas were also mounted at the Shady Canyon Club House tower as well as the brick towers at Woodbury. The one in Shady Canyon belongs to Verizon. Cingular is trying desperately for one in Turtle Rock since Shady is not allowing a second cell site due to citizens’ rejection. Cingular lost most of the Turtle Rock, Shady Canyon and Turtle Rock consumers.
Although TIC is very thorough to incorporate cell towers in their architectural landmark and monumentation but that is not really enough to satisfy many cell phone carriers. Cell phone companies also mandate there must be no mounting of competitions’ antenna within certain required distance as to insure its monopoly of the community coverage.
I do not object to the cell site as long as it is tastefully obscurely and well integrated into an architectural landmark.
irvine_native_IHB
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Churches have also been pretty good for hosting the towers. The one one Culver and Sandburg is silly though. No one would notice a small cell phone tower in that area. But a 40 foot stained glass box? Yeah, that kind of sticks out a little. What were they thinking?
effenheimer_IHB
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<p>That site is moronic. They don't really articulate what the problem is and they don't offer any alternatives. It's just a bunch of NIMBY spew.</p>
<p>People are very passionate about cell towers until they can't make a critical phone call. Then they become passionate about not being able to make that call. They'll never put two and two together though. </p>
<p>People are very passionate about cell towers until they can't make a critical phone call. Then they become passionate about not being able to make that call. They'll never put two and two together though. </p>