If you're an AT&T wireless subscriber living in the Lower Haight, your days of patchy service and dropped calls might soon be coming to an end. That's because AT&T has just announced plans to install nine new antennas on the roof of 255 Steiner Street.
Reader Mark D. alerts us to a flyer, addressed to "Neighborhood Groups, Neighbors & Owners within 500' of 255 Steiner Street," which reads:
Reader Mark D. alerts us to a flyer, addressed to "Neighborhood Groups, Neighbors & Owners within 500' of 255 Steiner Street," which reads:
"AT&T Mobility is proposing to install a wireless communication facility at 255 Steiner Street, needed by AT&T Mobility as part of its San Francisco wireless network. The proposed AT&T Mobility site is an unmanned facility consisting of the installation of nine (9) panel antennas, roof-mounted on the building. The equipment will also be located on the roof of the existing building. Plans and photo simulations will be available for your review at the meeting. You are invited to attend an informal community meeting located at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street, on Tuesday June 7, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. to learn more about the project. If you have any questions regarding the proposal and are unable to attend the meeting, please contact the AT&T Mobility Hotline at (415) 646-0972 and an AT&T Mobility specialist will return your call. Please contact Sara Vellve, project planner with the San Francisco Department of City Planning at (415) 558-6263 if you have any questions regarding the planning process."255 Steiner is a 24-unit, 6-story building, no doubt chosen because it's one of the tallest in the neighborhood. Whether new antennas on its roof will improve service in the area -- or, dare we suggest, bring relief to that zero-bar black hole that is the Upper Haight -- remains to be seen. For answers to these and other burning questions, like potential health effects of the antennas, swing by the June 7th meeting, and be sure to let us know how it goes. Don't call us though -- we get lousy reception here at Haighteration headquarters. We'll let you guess who our provider is.
