Would you want to live right beside a TV tower?

[MacDougalbry]

So, in my neighbourhood, a developer is proposing to build a condo complex 100m away from a 250m high TV tower.

This is the proposal:
http://www.wscr.ca/downloads/200611_...c2006-0101.pdf

The complex is the larger brown box. The TV tower is in the cluster of small red boxes to the east.

This is the TV tower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICT

I love this quote:
During the construction of the transmitter, the 70 foot, 5 ton antenna was being hoisted on the top of the 600 foot tower when the cable snapped and the antenna fell all the way down the tower to imbed itself 15 feet in the ground

Apparently, the developer says that these things are designed to "fall on themselves..." Though I have also heard that this isn't strictly true (e.g. if one of the cables snaps.)

That leaves the health concerns of living so close to one of these things. Various industry groups say these things are safe, and they are probably right, but I still wouldn't want to chance it after seeing stuff like this: (Doubles incidence of childhood leukemia.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

But, I guess in this real estate market, people will buy anything...

[Table 5]

there is no way i would live near an electrical structure that big.

[Resolute 14]

This is going to be great.

Step 1: build TV tower.
Step 2: Build condo right beside it.
Step 3: People buy condo
Step 4: ######s who bought condo start to whine about how the TV tower is dangerous, and is lowering property values.

When the inevitible public consultation occurs, I guarantee one idiot will tell the world he would not have bought the condo if he knew they were going to put a TV tower beside it.

[SpitFire40]

I live close to one, I get some minor interference on my signal... meh