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• Promptly remove facilities when no longer needed; replace with smaller facilities as feasible • Defend and indemnify the City • Mill Valley, California: Urgency Ordinance No 18, September 6, 2018 • Tech Crunch" Bay Area Blocks 5G Deployment Over Cancer Concerns • Marin Post Mill Valley Council Adopts Wireless Ordinance Protects Community Palo Alto, California City Council voted unanimously to approve a Resolution and amended Wireless Ordinance that City Staff had proposed. Council also voted unanimously in favor of a motion to direct City Staff "to come back as soon as possible but [in] no more than [one year], with an updated Ordinance/Resolution that considers" (and a summarizing): 1. Disfavoring the placement of cell towers in, for example, residential zones and near schools; 2. Minimum setbacks for cell towers from homes and schools, and minimum distances between cell towers; 3. Creating a list of city-owned buildings that would be appropriate sites for macro cell towers (i.e., as an alternative to small cell node cell towers next to people's homes); Council also voted to direct City Staff to return to Council with a recommendation for "best practices" with respect to inspecting antennas. "Seeking to strike a balance between federal requirements and resident concerns, Palo Alto approved on Monday night new rules for reviewing the flurry of applications that the city has been receiving from telecommunication companies seeking to install antennas on local streetlights and utility poles. By a 6-0 vote, with Councilman Greg Tanaka absent, the council adopted a set of "objective standards" for wireless communication facilities, including a menu of preferred design alternatives for radio equipment and antennas. And in a nod to the dozens of residents who have raised alarms about the proliferation of cellular facilities on their blocks, the council launched a new effort to further restrict where such technology can be installed and to explore "minimum