HomeMy WebLinkAboutZTA201300001 BOS Hearing 2013-05-08ZTA 2013 -01 Phase I Wireless
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MAY 89 2013
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
PUBLIC HEARING
What this ZTA Does
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Adds and Amends Definitions
Revises Balloon Test Requirements
Eliminates Automatic Reporting
Establishes Procedures to Amend Existing Sites
Establishes Reviews Times
Creates Administrative Review for Tier II Sites
By -Right Procedure for Collocation
What this ZTA does NOT do
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Does not reduce design requirements
Does not change Tier concept
Does not eliminate public involvement except for
certain collocation proposals.
What this ZTA does Not Do
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No changes to tree conservation plan or
requirements.
Does not change screening requirements or review
standards.
F— Revises Balloon Test Requirements i
Creates Administrative Review for Tier II Sites
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Staff has g years of experience processing.
Height would be io feet above reference tree.
Public notice is maintained.
All design requirements are maintained.
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Section 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Jo
Creation Act of 2012
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"Local government may not deny, and shall approve,
any eligible facilities request for a modification of an
existing wireless tower or base station that does not
substantially change the physical dimensions of such
tower or base station."
By -Right Procedure for Collocation
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Site may not be in an avoidance area, an Entrance
Corridor District, within 500 feet of Dwelling or
result in the removal of trees.
Adding one or more antennas.
Replacing a tower at an equal or lesser height.
Replacing a treetop tower with one that is not more
than 10 feet taller than the reference tree.
Strengthening a tower without the use of guy wires.
Expanding the lease area up to two times the original
lease area.
Adding ground equipment.
Nationwide Programmatic Agreement
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Existed prior to the adoption of the Middle Class Tax
Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012.
Was an agreement between Federal Agencies
designed to address review of impacts on Historic
Resources.
Comparison of the Act and Programmatic Agreement
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"does not substantially
change the physical
dimensions"
- No definition is
contained in the law
"substantial increase in the size of the tower"
1) The mounting of the proposed antenna on the tower would
increase the existing height of the tower by more than 10 %, or by
the height of one additional antenna array with separation from
the nearest existing antenna not to exceed twenty feet, whichever
is greater, except that the mounting of the proposed antenna may
exceed the size limits set forth in this paragraph if necessary to
avoid interference with existing antennas; or
2) The mounting of the proposed antenna would involve the
installation of more than the standard number of new equipment
cabinets for the technology involved, not to exceed four, or more
than one new equipment shelter; or
3) The mounting of the proposed antenna would involve adding an
appurtenance to the body of the tower that would protrude from
the edge of the tower more than twenty feet, or more than the
width of the tower structure at the level of the appurtenance,
whichever is greater, except that the mounting of the proposed
antenna may exceed the size limits set forth in this paragraph if
necessary to shelter the antenna from inclement weather or to
connect the antenna to the tower via cable; or
4) The mounting of the proposed antenna would involve excavation
outside the current tower site, defined as the current boundaries of
the leased or owned property surrounding the tower and any
access or utility easements currently related to the site.
Impact of Using Profy-rammatic Agreement
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Impact of the Propose
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Changes that are not substantial will allow for
administrative approval of collocations.
Changes that are substantial will require that the
facility be reviewed as either a Tier II or Tier III
facility.
Recommendation
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that the Board of Supervisors
eve ZTA 20 3 -01.