At its regular meeting of October 16, 2017, the City Council denied Crown Castle’s applications for Wireless Communication Facilities Permits and Variances for five of the sites included in the application: 150 Highland Avenue, 303 Hillside Avenue, 428 El Cerrito Avenue, 352 Jerome Avenue, and 1159 Winsor Avenue.

The Council continued consideration of three additional sites (near 340-370 Highland Avenue, 740 Magnolia Avenue, and 799 Magnolia Avenue) to a special meeting on Monday, October 30, 2017 and directed staff to prepare resolutions that would enable Council to deny these applications. The Council will make its decision on whether to approve or deny these applications at the October 30^th Special Council meeting.

The final site, 314 Wildwood Avenue, will be considered by the Park Commission and will come back to Council for consideration at a later date.

City report below:

Crown Castle and Beacon Development filed applications in November 2016 for nine Verizon distributed antenna system wireless communication facilities, located generally around Piedmont Park and Piedmont High School. Crown Castle is a company that builds wireless communications facilities and then leases them to wireless service providers, such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon.

The projects consist of five installations on the tops of existing utility poles, three installations on the tops of existing street light poles, and one installation on a new light. The applicants have proposed that ground equipment related to the pole top antennas be located in various locations including cabinets shaped like mailboxes, behind shrouds mounted on poles and street lights, and in underground vaults in the sidewalk.The proposal will require final approval from the City Council. Click to read more information about the application and the review process.

The Piedmont Park Commission considered this application at its regular meeting of June 7, 2017. The Piedmont Planning Commission considered this application at its regular meeting of June 12, 2017. The staff reports for these meeting are available on the Planning Department web page.

[Five applications were denied by the City Council at their October 16 meeting.  The denied cell towers are located at or near 150 Highland Avenue, 303 Hillside Avenue, 428 El Cerrito Avenue, 352 Jerome Avenue, and 1159 Winsor Avenue.]

A Piedmont Planning Department staff report prepared for the October 30, 2017 Council meeting is not yet available, however when made available, it will be published on this site.

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