Jerry and Jan Feagley
Contact the owners of 260 Water Street – Jerry and Jan Feagley of Feagley Realtors
and let them know that you do not want an antenna station in a
residential area in Richmond and you want them to stop devaluing
properties and risking the health of Richmond residents. We are hoping
that the voice of their community will inspire the Feagleys to do the
right thing and remove this antenna installation.
The Feagleys claim that this is legal and within their rights - we will be working with the City of Richmond and their attorneys to determine the legality of granting an exemption to our own City of Richmond Telecommunications Code - but it is clear that this is certainly not an action that could be deemed as one that shows any caring for their neighbors property values, health concerns or their goodwill. The Feagleys also claim that the FCC says it is safe to do this. It is true that the FCC does not allow state or local governments to ban cell towers based on health concerns, which was a concession to the enormous lobbying power of the cell phone companies in 1996. But as you will see in doing further research or checking out some of the many sites we have listed on our information pages, health issues are becoming a concern - particularly next to higher powered antenna such as this. And whether or not you are a resident that is concerned about possible health issues, the concern of the general public is such that the presence of the antennas are a disclosable item by property owners and lower property value. The percent of devaluation is determined by many factors - and in an area like northern California where people are extremely pro-active about health and environmental issues a property owner faces a much higher risk of devaluation. Additionally it would be discouraging to a potential new resident of Point Richmond or Richmond to realize that the zoning codes and other city codes are frequently disrespected (The Zucker Report to the City of Richmond 3-07) and would make one hesitant to want to invest in a home here. As real estate agents Jerry and Jan Feagley are aware of these factors and we believe they are ethically bound to be protective of the area that has served them so well financially. So even if they manage to claim it is their right to do this - it is not an action that is in the best interest of our community - it only serves the Feagleys and T-Mobile.
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Feagley Realtors
FMI - Feagley Management Investments
San Francisco Bay Front Homes
36 Railroad Avenue
Pt. Richmond, CA 94801
1160 Brickyard Cove Road, Suite 112
Point Richmond, CA 94801
845 Marina Bay Parkway, Suite 1
Marina Bay (Richmond), CA 94804
Part of what we want in revised ordinances for Richmond is to disallow private parties such as Jerry and Jan Feagley from initiating the permit application or owning a site. This should come only from the carriers.
Private party ownership not only leads to haphazard and overlapping installations, they are not stable entities to shoulder any liability claims. There is a move currently within the FCC to make site owners fully liable for any and all claims including ecomonic loss due to property devaluation, along with EMF health claims – which have NO statute of limitiations.
If a city does allow private parties to own the sites they should be required to carry comprehensive blanket liability policies that provide coverage from all acts and should be required to demonstate currency of those policies on an ongoing basis. Even though private owners such as Jerry Feagley can make huge amounts of money leasing their rooftops, the cost of premiums for such insurance would outweigh the benefits of leasing directly to cell companies.