Throughout the United States, local communities have passed ordinances providing for cell tower setbacks at schools and daycare facilities. The City of Greenwich, CT generated a bill to require a 750 square setback of cell towers from schools and daycare facilities.

The town of Bar Harbor, Maine includes in its communication tower ordinance a provision for a 1,500 feet setback for cell towers near schools and daycare facilities.

In 2009, the Los Angeles Unified School District passed a resolution calling for criteria to establish cell tower setbacks from schools.

The Connecticut PTA passed a resolution in 2003 that supports legislation calling for a 1500 feet setback from a school or day care and a cell phone tower.