2020-01-08 Exh A Hearing Transcript Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Amend USE 15-056

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So, in 2015, the Planning Commission issued a Use Permit to Verizon to allow the construction of a 150 -foot tall steel monopole telecommunication facility and related improvements within a 1,600 -square foot portion of a 2 -acre property, and that 2 -acre property is Parcel 118, which I will show you in a minute. The permit allowed access to the facility over a driveway from 32nd Avenue. It also required that construction of the facility be completed by November 19th of this year. So, the Applicant is now requesting to relocate that driveway from 32nd Avenue to 31" Avenue over a new property that the same landowner that owns Parcel 118 also owns Parcel 84. It's owned by a church. And, they're doing this in order to provide a safer play area for the preschool on the church property. The Applicant is also requesting a 5 -year time extension to complete construction of the facility. So, this is the original site plan. You can see 32nd Avenue on the left side of the slide. This is the 2 -acre Parcel 118 which is owned by the church. This is a church building, and then over in this area is a preschool building. There are some playground equipment generally in this area, and the driveway access that was proposed back in 2015 would come through the parking lot near the playground equipment between the church and the playground to the back of the property to the cell tower facility site. The Applicant is now proposing to get access from 31st Avenue over Parcel 84 and then to the back area of Parcel 118. And, that would avoid this playground equipment area. So, it would make a safer situation for the preschool. The County zoning of the property is Agricultural — 1 acre along with most of the properties in Hawaiian Paradise Park. That's shown in the light green color. The General Plan designation is Rural for this area. And, this is an aerial view of the properties and surrounding area. This is the church building, the preschool building, the playground equipment is located here. So, the original driveway would have come through this area and back to the proposed tower site. Now, they are proposing to get access through this property to the tower site here. And, this is a view of the property from 32nd Avenue. The original driveway would have come right through here, and this is the playground equipment. The cell tower site is behind the church building in this area here. And, this is another view again of the playground equipment, the cell tower site, and, another view from 31" Avenue through the vacant lot. The new driveway would be created back to this cell tower site. The Planning Director is recommending approval of the amendments, and I do have quite a bit of information that has come in since our recommendation was released. In your packet, you should have two packages of letters received from the community opposing the extension request. And, you should also have a revised recommendation from the Planning Department on a yellow piece of paper. These revised recommendations were made to add conditions that were recommended by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service due to impacts on threatened and endangered species in the area. EXHIBIT A 2