AGENDA REPORT
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 7/18/2018
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Community Development Department
SUBJECT:
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City Council consideration to take no action, thereby affirming the Planning and Housing Commission's action granting Conditional Use Permit 2017-0105, to establish two 78-foot high wireless telecommunications facilities designed as ballfield light poles within Santana Regional Park (located at 598 Santana Way) in the (P) Park Zone, or set the item for review at a subsequent meeting. (Applicant: AT&T Mobility)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
That the City Council:
1. Take no action, thereby affirming the Planning and Housing Commission's action granting CUP2017-0105, based on the findings contained in the staff report and conditions of approval.
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2. Set the item for review at a subsequent meeting.
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ANALYSIS:
The telecommunications carrier associated with CUP2017-0105 is AT&T. The purpose of the application is to increase the capacity, speed and reliability of its existing cellular phone coverage and data network in an area that is currently experiencing a gap in 4G-LTE network coverage. Propagation maps were submitted to city showing the four closest AT&T telecommunications facilities to the project site. Two existing facilities are located within a one-mile radius southwest of Santana Park in the area of Main Street and Magnolia Avenue, and on Chase Drive, west of Main Street. The other two existing facilities are located within 1.5 mile radius northeast and southeast of Santana Park near Interstate 15. The northeast location is off California Avenue and the southeast location is off Taber Street.
Currently, without the project the area mostly provides in-transit coverage (pedestrian on-street coverage and on-street in vehicle coverage), but not enough coverage for customers inside an enclosed building. With the project, the in-building coverage increases a...
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