File #: 14116    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Zoning Item Status: Passed
File created: 9/14/2018 In control: Planning and Building
On agenda: 9/20/2018 Final action: 9/20/2018
Title: Shore 2 Shore Wireless Special Permit Application Number 14116 Case Numbers SP-18-068 Assessor's Parcel Number (APN) 504-131-004 1220 Glendale Road, Glendale Area A Special Permit to allow a height exception from the 35' height limit in the Agriculture General (AG) zone. The proposal is for a 150 foot self-supporting lattice cell tower with twelve (12) panel antennas and twenty-three (23) remote radio heads, a sixty-four (64) square foot by 10 feet tall equipment cabinet and a diesel emergency backup generator all within a 30 ft. X 50 ft. lease area surrounded by an anti-climb chain link fence. To minimize potential visual concerns and insure compatibility with neighboring development, Staff recommends that the tower is re-designed as a stealth mono-pole that is manufactured to look like a conifer tree complete with bark on its trunk with all antennas hidden within the branches.
Attachments: 1. SP-18-068 Staff Report.pdf

Title

Shore 2 Shore Wireless  Special Permit

Application Number 14116

Case Numbers SP-18-068

Assessor’s Parcel Number (APN) 504-131-004

1220 Glendale Road, Glendale Area

 

A Special Permit to allow a height exception from the 35’ height limit in the Agriculture General (AG) zone. The proposal is for a 150 foot self-supporting lattice cell tower with twelve (12) panel antennas and twenty-three (23) remote radio heads, a sixty-four (64) square foot by 10 feet tall equipment cabinet and a diesel emergency backup generator all within a 30 ft. X 50 ft. lease area surrounded by an anti-climb chain link fence.   To minimize potential visual concerns and insure compatibility with neighboring development, Staff recommends that the tower is re-designed as a stealth mono-pole that is manufactured to look like a conifer tree complete with bark on its trunk with all antennas hidden within the branches.

Recommendation

 

Move to determine the project exempt from further environmental review pursuant to 15303 of the CEQA Guidelines, and make all of the required findings for approval of the Special Permit based on evidence in the staff report and any public testimony, and adopt the Resolution approving the proposed Shore 2 Shore project subject to the recommended conditions.