I am the Board Secretary of the nonprofit, Community and Friends of Seattle-Tacoma Pet Cemetery, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. I am writing as an individual to provide my comments today. I am an advocate for the historic Seattle-Tacoma Pet Cemetery est. 1950 on Kent’s West Hill in unincorporated South King County in a community of color, immigrants, refugees, and low income housing in Kent, Washington. A 100-foot industrial AT&T cell phone tower was installed by Crown Castle inside active Burial Block 13 with graves and mourners just over 115 feet from the neighbors in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the wrong zone without a conditional use permit in violation of King County Code and Washington State cemetery law. It is dangerously close, illegal, unlawful, and unethical. It is damaging to the sacred burial grounds and is physically, mentally, and emotionally damaging. Not to mention it is aesthetically ugly and spiritually cruel to the living and to our beloveds. Humans, pets, K-9 officers, and service animals for the blind are all buried here, some as whole families. Crown Castle did not disclose human burials here and the historic significance of the historic cemetery here on the application. They railroaded it through the King County Permit department. Cemeteries function as a sacred space, regardless of a cemetery patron or visitor’s religious background. A cemetery is intended to be a place removed from the noise, hustle. Commercial infrastructure as a cell tower is, is an intrusion of a sacred burial ground meant for honor and memory. Radio frequency radiation exposes harm to people and animals who are mourning their loved ones. Cell towers take away the calm and harmonious space that it was meant to be in perpetuity. We want responsible placement of cell phone towers. We are not against cell towers and advocate for the safe and appropriate placement of cell towers — not here!
Additionally, as a public schools educator, board certified in special education, I am against cell phone towers near schools because they raise valid safety concerns for children and the staff that work with them. Research notes that children absorb more radio-frequency radiation due to their developing bodies which exposes them to long-term health problems such as cancer and neurological symptoms.
(https://ehsciences.org/addressing-cell-towers-at-schools-science-based-policy-health-risks/)
Thank you for hearing my comments and taking them into advisement. Please update the 1996 wireless safety limits to truly safe limits in 2026, 30 years and counting.
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*See Attached Testimonial From Another Innocent Individual Injured By Wireless RF Radiation
Kevin Mottus, Outreach Director
CA Brain Tumor Assn
Email: wirelessbiologicaleffects@gmail.com
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*See Attached Testimonial From Another Innocent Individual Injured By Wireless RF Radiation
Kevin Mottus, Outreach Director
CA Brain Tumor Assn
Email: wirelessbiologicaleffects@gmail.com
Since forced to have wifi water meter st home by the city of wood dale, illinois im always fatigued at home. Cant sleep. I feel better after hours outside home in a park. My health is bad at home. Before this i was ok with analog comed electricmeter and ethernet. Its not right! City said they dont care and radiation is minimal and no chance to normal meter. They were going to shut off our water otherwise. They dont care if im sick.
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*See Attached Testimonial From Another Innocent Individual Injured By Wireless RF Radiation
Kevin Mottus, Outreach Director
CA Brain Tumor Assn
Email: wirelessbiologicaleffects@gmail.com
Please Find attached my full response to the Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.
This comment is submitted in response to the request for information on electromagnetic field exposure and human health, sharing a personal perspective as an individual with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) for over 15 years. My comment discusses the profound impacts of both magnetic/electric fields and radiofrequency (RF) radiation on my daily life, my health symptoms experienced, and personal management strategies. Key recommendations include improving real-world exposure level transparency, lowering exposure standards especially for high risk individuals, recognizing EHS as a medical condition, and addressing cumulative exposure risks.
Please reference the PDF attached for the full comment. Thank you for providing this opportunity to be heard.
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*See Attached Testimonial From Another Innocent Individual Injured By Wireless RF Radiation
Kevin Mottus, Outreach Director
CA Brain Tumor Assn
Email: wirelessbiologicaleffects@gmail.com
My friend was severely harmed by a Wi-Fi router installed in his home without his consent. He was severely impacted. Time away from the home he improved and then repeated exposure impacted him again.
He removed the Wi-Fi router and reinstalled his wired router but then other family members kept reinstalling the Wi-Fi because they said it was not the cause of his problem because it was within FCC guidelines and also the internet company that kept reinstalling the Wi-Fi router told the family it was "safe".
This happened several times by going against his wishes and deceitfully putting Wi-Fi back.
The Wi-Fi pulsed modulated radiation was the agent of harm and my friend knew it but was his wishes were not respected.
This is a tragedy with the consequences of a very sad outcome from a product put in his home without his consent that had harmful biological effects.
Request is to have all devices, products with radio frequency to inform the risks and get consent before selling or installing such products. Industry needs to take responsibility to inform and not deny harm when the research shows the mechanisms of harm from pulsed modulated microwave radiation and be held accountable.
Education to the public to raise awareness of the harms would be helpful and put some responsibility back on the persons that deny that microwave radiation is harmful without doing the research.
Thank you for addressing these issues and caring about human health.