2016-04-07 Hearing Transcript - Cellco Partnership USE 16-061

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The subject parcel and surrounding parcels are zoned Agricultural – 1 acre, and the uses in the area are generally residential, small farms, and vacant land. The State Land Use Boundary designation for the parcel and surrounding area is Agricultural, and the General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map designation is Rural for the subject parcel and much of the surrounding area. Here's some aerial photographs of the subject parcel on the left here. Again, outlined in red, we see that the subject parcel, again, Kaloli Drive running this way, and 3rd Avenue running this direction. On the right, we zoomed in a little bit. Sorry for the lack of clarity in the photo, but I just wanted to show, on the subject parcel, there's an existing single-family dwelling, a detached garage, and, again, in the dashed outline here is roughly where the project area will be. The Applicant is requesting a Use Permit to allow the construction of a new, unmanned telecommunication facility including a 105 -foot tall steel monopine with 8 -foot tall panel antennas and related facilities within a 1,050 -square foot portion of a 1 -acre parcel situated in the County's Agricultural – 1 acre zoning district. The monopine is a monopole, an antenna disguised with branches to resemble a pine tree. The reason for the request is, according to the Applicant, the majority of Hawaiian Paradise Park Subdivision has little to no wireless coverage. The objective of this project is to allow Verizon to expand wireless telephone and E911 services to the subdivision by adding several cell sites strategically placed to provide coverage to the majority of the residences of the area. Here are the Applicant's site plan and, again, sorry for the lack of clarity. On the left, we see the overall plot plan with 3rd Avenue running generally east -west toward the top of the image. Again, we've got the existing single-family dwelling, the detached garage, and here toward the back of the property is going to be where the project area is. According to the site plan, access will be through an existing gravel driveway on the parcel. And then on the right here, we've got just a zoomed in depiction of the monopine facility and related improvements. Here, elevations of the facility. Again, the monopine having the—the branches to try and disguise the monopole tower. Here is some images of the subject property. Here is again the driveway that will be accessing the tower site, the existing single-family dwelling, and in the back here, you can see the detached garage. From the other direction, again, existing single-family dwelling, detached garage, and this is roughly going to be the area where the, where the telecommunications facility will be located. Here, again, is, on the left, 3rd Avenue looking south with the subject property on the right, and 3rd Avenue looking north with the subject property shown on the left. The Planning Director's recommendation is to approve the Use Permit with conditions. And, we did have a timely and complete application that was submitted prior to the hearing. We believe 2 EXHIBIT A