Take a drive out to the area with your Verizon phone and see for yourself if you can find a dead spot, or even an area with poor reception. I did, and found good strong coverage throughout the area. Verizon's interest, like that of the rest of the wireless industry, is not about cell phone service, it is about challenging cable and DSL for market share of streaming entertainment services--not what the FCC cell tower regulations were originally written for. There is abundant phone service, and 911 access is not even remotely in question. There is no true need for a tower there. By the way, the US Department of the Interior is on record that such towers are a threat to migratory birds (consider proximity to Fern Ridge)--a little more meaningful than a threat to Pokemon. Please go to www.FriendsOfAmazonCreek.org to learn more and sign a petition opposing this tower.