Mailbag

Cell tower won’t ruin neighborhood

Regarding “T-Mobile backs off on tower,” Friday:

I recommend that the city of Glendale adopt a reasonable policy that will develop a sound communication infrastructure without tolerating visual blight. I think that the cellphone industry has done some very clever things to make its sites blend in to the surrounding area. If they continue this way, we should tolerate them in most places.

Cellphones have become a valuable public utility, necessary for public convenience and safety. If our ancestors had attempted to halt telephone poles and lines, would that have let us build the nation we now enjoy living in? Perhaps the objections of some people are made as much to get themselves publicity as to build a better civilization.

MIKE MCGINLEY

La Crescenta

Meetings invite public comment

I take umbrage to the inaccurate conclusions made by Carole Weling in her letter “Police committees need outsider’s eye” (Mailbag, Jan. 3) in which she stated her belief that the Community Police Partnership Advisory Committee and its subcommittee, the Glendale Police Advisory Council, are all “appointees of Police Chief Randy Adams” and that “these ‘toadies’ rarely, if ever, find anything wrong and are just there to do the chief’s bidding.”

Wow. What is the source of that misinformation? For your information, I was appointed to the Community Police Partnership Advisory Committee by the officers of the Glendale Homeowners’ Coordinating Council (the umbrella organization for all homeowner associations in Glendale) as its representative, and instructed to take copious notes and report to the coordinating council at its monthly meetings. No more and no less. If that makes me a “toadie,” I plead guilty.

Adams introduced himself to me Nov. 17 upon my attendance at my first Community Police Partnership Advisory Committee meeting. So much for being “a sycophant” with “no real objectivity.”