'Not In Your Backyard'

29 October 2003 - 6:00am

Connecticut residents find out that the hazards of suburban living include intrusive cell towers.

"Life in the suburbs comes with its share of worrisome surprises... Usually, however, those surprises do not include the neighbor's deciding to put up a cellphone tower that is about 10 stories tall." One resident calls it the "nightmare on Burr Street" and the nightmare includes ethics complaints and a member of the local planning commission.

Source: The New York Times, October 27, 2003
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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.