Having just gone through a similar campaign in Canyon Meadows I have to say the noise generated by the "no towers! It'll destroy our neighbourhood!" crowd was much more of an inconvenience & annoyance than the actual tower itself has ended up being.
For months & months there was signs, banners, pamphlets, newsletters etc touting how horrible this tower would be for the community. It was going to destroy property values, be an eyesore and even cook our brains! (they dropped the health angle once it came out that there was already a tower built into the church on the same lot)
Anyways, the tower was built and honestly I can barely notice it, and when I do all I think is "really? All that noise was generated over that?". All those tacky yellow signs along the medians, all the light poles plastered in paper, all those deliveries to my house were much more of a nuisance than the tower.
Anyways, pick your battles, etc.
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