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| Santa Fe advocacy group |
by Robert Nott, The New Mexican, 19 March 2013
The Santa Fe school board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a resolution voicing opposition to a planned cell tower near Gonzales Community School.
The vote is symbolic, since the school district has no authority over AT&T’s plans to build the cell tower on the commercially zoned Burger King property at the northwest corner of West Alameda Street and North St. Francis Drive.
Although some residents have expressed health concerns about cell towers, the federal 1996 Telecommunications Act doesn’t allow either the school board or the city of Santa Fe to raise health issues in opposing such a project.
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