Press Coverage

The City Planning Controversy over Sutro Tower "Planning OKs Sutro Tower antennae" SF Bay Guardian, April, 2002 "Yee calls hearing on Sutro Tower decision" SF Bay Guardian, June 14, 2000 "Sutro Sleaze" SF Bay Guardian, May 31, 2000 "Tear down Sutro tower" SF Bay Guardian editorial, May 24, 2000 FBI probes approval of Sutro Tower expansion (San Francisco Examiner Apr 30, 2000 - this article is no longer online) Tempers Flare At Panel Meeting Over Sutro Tower - Structure's lobbyist thrown out (SF Chronicle, January 20, 2000) Sutro Tower Ruling Prompts Struggle in S.F./Lobbyists call -- official resigns (SF Chronicle) Planner leaves post after making controversial ruling (SF Examiner) "Lobbyist pushes to pack Sutro Tower task force" SF Bay Guardian, December 1, 1999 "We don't know if Sutro Tower is safe," Supervisor Leland Yee, The Richmond ReView, September, 1999 "Analysis Persuades Sutro Tower Owners To Agree to Retrofit," Dan Levy, Chronicle Staff Writer, in SF Chronicle Friday, August 6, 1999 Press release from Twin Peaks Improvement Association, July 8, 1998 regarding the lawsuit filed against the city. "Twin Peaks activists throw monkey wrench in Sutro plan" SF Examiner, July 10, 1998 "Suit to Stop Antenna on Sutro Tower" The Chronicle, July 10, 1998 "S.F. Supervisors Refuse to Delay Adding Antenna to Sutro Tower/Fearful Twin Peaks neighbors incensed" SF Chronicle, May 20, 1998 "Sutro Tower neighbors fight on" The Independent, May 5, 1998 "Sutro Tower ruling sure looks ugly" EDITORIAL The Independent, April 28, 1998 "Towering Reaction" The Independent, April 28, 1998 "Is Sutro quake-safe? Supes won't decide" The Independent, April 21, 1998 "Sutro Sleaze" San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 22, 1998 "Sutro Tower Foes Suffer Setback" San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1998 "Is Sutro Tower safe? Twin Peaks Neighbors wonder" in SF Independent, March 24, 1998 - A report on the Structural Advisory Committee's frustrating meeting. "Committee calls Sutro unsafe" in SF Bay Guardian, March 28, 1998 "Sutro Scam" SF Bay Guardian, March 4, 1998 "Planners approve HDTV appendage for Sutro Tower - Neighbors' pleas fall on deaf ears" February 27, 1998, SF Examiner Coverage from 1973 before Sutro Tower was built. The Independent, January 31, 1998, Is Sutro Tower Seismically Safe? Sutro Tower declared an essential facility , as reported in the City Voice. A report on Sutro Tower's EIR and progress through the San Francisco approval process. West Portal MONTHLY covers the issue. The San Francisco Bay Guardian yields links to a number of articles, and an editorial, covering the history of this controversy. A search for "Sutro Tower" yields pointers to those articles. The Twin Peaks Improvement Association issued a Sutro Tower Special Bulletin, Fall, 1997. There has been some additional press coverage of the controversy. The City Voice, in its September 16-October 14, 1997 issue covered the EIR and the permitting process. The San Francisco Chronicle covered neighborhood reaction on December 10, 1997. "Tower Trick" San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 29, 1997 Local efforts to support U.S. Senate action regarding a local voice in placement of communications facilities and antennas.

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