Park Ritchie Tenants et al.

The County's Tower Committee, which is responsible for reviewing wireless facility applications, recommended an application to install 5G antennas on the rooftop of Park Ritchie Apartments in Takoma Park. The application was recommended in spite of computer simulations showing the new antennas would be 5,742% greater than the FCC limits of effective radiated power. That is not a misstatement: 5,742% or almost 58 times ABOVE the legal limit. There are no requirements to test interior spaces for actual Radio Frequency emissions penetrating into the living spaces directly below those antennas.

Park Ritchie is a large apartment building providing affordable housing to many persons of color and to the elderly, and it is one of at least six affordable housing complexes in the County where rooftops have become major wireless antenna macro-sites.

What are the specific actions and initiatives that are being spearheaded by the Elrich administration and Montgomery County Council regarding Montgomery County's future regulation and processing of wireless facilities -– particularly for affordable housing sites and in all residential zones?