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MEMORANDUM
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Michalyn DelValle, Community Development Director
Mireya G. Turner, Associate Planner
DATE: January 24, 2019
SUBJECT: Major Use Permit, UP 18-01; Initial Study, IS 18-06 for 85-foot broad leaf mono-tree telecommunications tower; project located at 9475 Mojave Trail, Kelseyville (APN 009-004-21)
Supervisor District 5
ATTACHMENTS: 1. Vicinity Map
2. Proposed Project Packet (plans included)
3. Initial Study, IS 18-06
4. Proposed Conditions of Approval
5. Letters of Support - California Highway Patrol, Kelseyville Fire Protection District, and Lake County Sheriff's Office
6. Agency Comments
7. Public Comments (a-e)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
The project proposes to construct, operate and an unmanned 85 foot tall green mono-broad leaf wireless telecommunication tower, built to accommodate up to four (4) wireless communication carriers. Each carrier would be able to lease an area of approximately 300 (12' x 25') square feet in size. The proposed mono-broad leaf communication facility would allow up to four (4) - thirty-six (36) panel antennas, each approximately 8' x 18"; and up to eight (8) microwave dish antennas, approximately 36" in diameter. The proposed facility and supporting ground equipment, including each carrier's leased area would be contained within an area of approximately 2,500 (50' x 50') square feet in size each, and would be fenced in with a six foot (6') chain link fence.
Currently, the project site is accessible from an existing eight foot (8') to twelve foot (12') wide private dirt/gravel access easement/road located off of Mojave Trail. Mojave Trail is a County maintained road for only 0.02 miles, 105 feet, the length of the parcel bordering the Clear Lake Riviera, Unit 11 Subdivision. The access easement would be increased to a minimum of twenty feet (20') wide, with a minimum of ten feet (10') of improved surfacing, pursuant to Article 71 (Communication Towers & Ante...
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