JANISCH Amy C <br />From: <br />cindy allen <cindyallen2l@yahoo.com> <br />Sent: <br />Sunday, June 01, 2014 10:12 AM <br />To: <br />TAYLOR Becky G <br />Subject: <br />Cell tower at Cross Fire Church 4060 W. Amazon <br />Follow Up Flag: Follow up <br />Flag Status: Flagged <br />Dear Becky, <br />I'm sorry have missed you on the phone. <br />Could you please keep me informed of all activity on the cell tower proposed at Cross Fire Church at 4060 W. Amazon. <br />Steve Ochs, our former planning board contact, had received notice of several items noticed by neighbors in the area. <br />* All neighbors within 500' of the proposed tower were <br />to be contacted in writing about the Neighborhood/Applicant Meeting. Hill Top Apartments is directly across from Cross Fire <br />Church. According to the manager, neither she nor anyone at the apartments received notification of the meeting. <br />* The name of the church used on the sign telling about the Neighborhood/ Applicant Meeting was Calvary Chapel. (A neighbor <br />has a picture of this & <br />it's being circulated in our community.) Calvary Chapel was also the name used <br />in the written notices to the neighbors. Steve Ochs told several of us that Calvary <br />Chapel was also the name used on the permit with the city for the cell tower. But <br />Calvary Chapel is not the name of the current owners of the church. <br />The group promoting the cell tower is Cross Fire Ministries and its pastor is Rev. Aaron Taylor. The former church that owned <br />the property is Calvary <br />Chapel and its pastor was Rev. Danny O'Neil. There seems to be no connection <br />what-so- ever between these 2 churches except both have owned a property <br />that seems to change hands frequently. At the neighborhood meeting there were at least 3 <br />executives from Portland and Seattle present ; the room was filled with multi-dollared advertising but the wrong name of the <br />property owners was used. <br />To take out a city permit on a cell tower using another church's name has serious legal and insurance issues. <br />For one-these towers, especially the larger ones, could be sited in future class-action lawsuits for any # of reasons: health, loss <br />of property values to the surrounding areas, cell tower noise pollution, fire hazard, tower collapse, etc. The insurance <br />companies are well aware of this and many are increasing premiums or even denying coverage on properties siting the large <br />towers. <br />Was this a reason why an attempt to use another church's name was used.? With what company does <br />Rev. Taylor & Cross Fire Ministries of Eugene have their insurance? Are they aware of the plans to put <br />up this large tower? <br />There is also the issue of currently-unregulated LLC companies buying out the contracts for big $ <br />once they are approved. Who will protect our neighborhood if there are any problems with <br />this large tower? I don't believe our individual home-owners policy will cover this. <br />Cross Ministries in Eugene is a satellite of Cross Fire International. Has the executive board of <br />Cross Fire International approved the proposed cell tower at their Eugene location? I saw no <br />mention of it on their website. <br />