I would like to call your attention to those big Onotice of applicationO signs on the Snoqualmie-Fall City Road and the Carnation-Fall City Road, just past the Fall City Grill.

They are alerting people about a proposed 150-foot tall cell tower with up to four wireless providers. You have until July 9 to voice your concerns to the Building Department if you have any. I sure have some.

If it was a smaller tower without flashing lights I wouldnOt mind, but this is huge N taller than most of the trees in Fall City N probably with lots of flashing lights so the Fall City airplanes donOt run into it. And didnOt we just go through creating the Fall City subarea plan with King County and the Citizens Advisory Committee with the goals being the preservation of rural character, protecting historic scenic view corridors and encouraging farm and forest-production district activities? How does a 150-foot tall metal monolith contribute to the pastoral scenic view corridor along the Snoqualmie River?

This tower seems more like an industrial use than rural. King County has endless documentation about Fall City being designated as a Orural town,O with its associated rural activities. Is this all just a bunch of warm, fuzzy rhetoric that doesnOt really apply to cell towers?

Speak up before July 9 or youOll think youOre in the red-light district looking at flashing lights and a metal monster from miles around. Call Chad Tibbitts, the DDES planner at (800) 325-6165 ext. 6-7194, or e-mail him at chad.tibbitts@metrokc.gov, or fax him at (800) 325-6165 ext. 6-7051. The file number is L01CU005.

Sue Gorton

Fall City