PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION AGAINST THE TOWER

REASONS TO REJECT THE CELL TOWER AND SIGN OUR PETITION

Click here to be directed to The Petition 

THREAT TO OUR QUALITY OF LIFE

The Tower will negatively affect the welfare of all our neighborhood residents. It will generate noise and light pollution and be a blight on our viewshed. Maintenance crews and possibly cranes, generators, and lights will come into Sailfish Marina at will.

This Tower would be a distraction, a disruption to the quality of our lives, and deprive us of the right to the quiet enjoyment of our homes.

It is a hazard to aircraft. Many homes are in the debris field if a plane hits the Tower.

 Real estate values will be adversely affected. No one wants to buy a house that looks at a 120 ft Tower. Home values lower between 4-38% (depending on circumstances) when a cell tower is in the neighborhood.

NO DEMONSTRATED NEED FOR A 120 FT TOWER

No independent study says we need a cell tower here.

 Residents find that with newer phones and towers recently built at Sailfish Point and Cove Road there is no gap in service.

Small cells are commonly used in residential neighborhoods to increase wireless capacity. They are installed on rooftops and utility poles. They to not intrude on the character of a neighborhood. Technology has improved so that structures can be smaller. This proposal is for a dinosaur.

RE ZONING IS OUR GREATEST THREAT

Sailfish Marina is zoned R-3A liberal multi-family, an old designation, and must be changed when development is proposed. Bayley Products, Inc. requested rezoning a 640 sq. ft. portion of the marina, which they called a "postage stamp", to Waterfront General Commercial (WGC) in order to proceed with Tower construction.

Sailfish Marina could use this same "postage stamp" zoning technique to gradually rezone other portions of the marina to WGC, none of which would have to conform to county zoning and development regulations for WGC.  After the Tower what will they construct next? Postage stamp zoning of Sailfish Marina was approved unanimously by the MC LPA on March 5, 2015.

WHO BENEFITS?

 DTI is a construction company which builds cell towers. They are not in the telecommunications business. 

Bayley Products, Inc is in the marine business serving sport fishermen, boaters, and tourists. They are not in the telecommunications business.

Sailfish Marina will certainly benefit from the spot zoning that enables them to build the Tower in that zone. 

They can use it again and again to build restaurants and bars without having to notify the neighbors and comply with WGC regulations.

The Tower will benefit both owners who will make substantial financial gains from the construction of and renting out the Tower space.

SUMMARY

Across the US, residents are fighting these "Tower Builders" who intrude into residential neighborhoods for profit and erect these massive towers against the wishes of the local residents. 

We are not rejecting wireless communications. Many less intrusive options exist.  We are rejecting this particular structure to house the communications equipment that no one has proven we need.

Protect our safety, peace, property values, and quality of life. Tell the Board of County Commissioners that you do not support this 120 ft. tower in our residential neighborhood. Here is the petition at MoveOn.org that will enable you let the Martin County Board of Commissioners know you do not want a 120 ft. Telecommunications Tower in our neighborhood.

The Mariner Cay, Yacht and Country Club of Stuart, and Rocky Point residential neighborhoods will be severely impacted by an obtrusive, looming 120 ft telecommunications tower. Better to have small cells installed on rooftops and utility poles to increase wireless capacity. This tower would be a hazard to public safety, a disruption to the quality of our lives, and deprive us of the right to the quiet enjoyment of our homes.

That's why I created a petition to Ed Fielding, Commissioner, Anne Scott, Commissioner, Sarah Heard, Commissioner, John Haddox, Commissioner, and Doug Smith, Commissioner, which says:

"A 120 Ft monopole telecommunications tower is planned for a residential neighborhood in Stuart, FL. at Sailfish Marina on the Manatee Pocket." 

Will you sign the petition? Click here to add your name: 

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-cell-tower-in?source=c.fwd&r_by=12728502 

Thanks!