History of Lookout Mountain Antenna Tower Land

Lookout Mountain & Mount Morrison Hearings (cont.)

• June 17, 1999: JeffCo Commissioners deny the proposed 300-foot guyed tower for Mt. Morrison.
  Primary reason for JeffCo planner’s recommendation for denial are not compatible with the Scenic corridor.
  Bear Creek Development executive Kathryn Isenberger testifies that she was the first to promote Mount
  Morrison as an alternative to antennas on Lookout Mountain.

• Citizens speaking in opposition to the
  Mount Morrison towers: Genesee attorney
  Scott Albertson, owner of Squaw
  Mountain Communications Tom Baran,
  Greg Henika of Idledale, Kevin Burke and
  Ron Selsted of Genesee, Kevan Uhes and
  Dick Scott of Morrison, Judy Zarlengo and
  Pricilla Bates of Lookout Mountain, Jan
  Wilkins of Mount Vernon Country Club,
  Don D’Antuono and Susan Murphy of
  Lookout Mountain, Matt McCormick and
  Bob Crowder of Golden, Mike Norville and
  Carol Bowland of Genesee, Jake Bola of
  Red Rocks Park, Nick Mattthews (JeffCo
  Open Space Matthews Winters Park), and
  Shirley Wolvington of Lininger Mountain.
  

• June 24, 1999: U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C.
  deals with “The FCC order violates the agency’s own rules,
  violates the National Environmental Policy Act, the Historic
  Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the
  Constitution Rights of residents of CARE to due process.” As
  of September 2006, a court has still not provided a decision.
• June 29, 1999: JeffCo Commissioners LCG Supertower
  hearing attracts an overflow into the hallway of Hearing Room
  1. Citizens opposed are National Parks architect Andy Beck;
  Barry Corbet and Jim Hill are confined to electric wheelchairs
  that RF interferes; Genesee attorney Scott Albertson, Paul
  Kalkwarf and Bonnie Saxton of Paradise Hills, Lee King of
  Cody Park, Nancy Bruce of JeffCo Open Space (told of cars
  locking at the Nature Center), Jim Shea (found his dog
  paralyzed by interference with his invisible fence), engineer
  Al Hislop, Paul Kopper, Sister Bernadette of Mother Cabrini
  Shrine, Joy Lawrance of Riva Chase, Jake Bola of Red Rocks,
  Bryan Starling of Golden City Council, Jim Martin and
  Jan Wilkins of Mount Vernon Country Club, Jean Widner,
  Eugenie Roscoe and Scott Coors of Panorama Estates,
  Wally Watson and Susan Landon of Lookout Mountain,
  Don Wicks and Mike Norville of Genesee, Richard Beghte
  and Don Patton, Lee Todd, and attorneys Brad Ross-Shannon
  and Kevin Groenoweg of Paradise Hills, Shelly Schlosky,
  Eddie Alianiello, Steve Taylor, David Bennitti, and Bill Calkin
  of Lookout Mountain, Dr. Ron Larson, Karin Bull,
  Martha Gaskill, Dr. Romer Noufi, attorney Susan Marcus,
  Philadelphia Cousins (niece of famous chef Julia Childs),
  President of Plan JeffCo Margot Zallen, Gary Reddish, and
  Barry Rosenberg of Lookout Mountain. Three teenage
  girls—Lauren Bogard, Melissa Fine, and Julia King—testified.
  Christ Adams said, “I am disturbed by the fact that my
  elementary school is receiving the same type of radiation that
  the U.S. Embassy received in Moscow in the 1970s.”

• July 13, 1999: LCG Supertower is denied by County
  Commissioners after hearing rebuttal from LCG attorney
  Tom Raganetti, radiology professor Dr. Gerald
  Bushberg of University of California, epidemiologist from
  University of Alabama Dr. Philip Cole, and forensics
  structure analyst Dr. Howard Hill. Citizens were not
  allowed to testify.