Use Permit 24-0004

Use Permit 24-0004

The project is a use permit application to construct, operate, and maintain an unmanned commercial wireless telecommunications facility within a 50-foot by 50-foot ground lease area on a parcel developed with a single-family residence and associated residential accessory structures. The lease area would be graded, enclosed by an 8-foot-tall chain-link fence with green privacy slats, and would be lighted by seven (7) L.E.D. service lights. Proposed improvements within the lease area include a 129-foot-tall monopine tower with three (3) ground mounted equipment cabinets, an enclosed 30-kilowatt (kW) back-up diesel generator with a 210-gallon fuel tank, a utility transformer and other ancillary equipment. Eleven (11) tower mounted antennas are proposed, including three (3) C-Band antennas, six (6) LTE antennas, and two (2) microwave antenna. The tower would allow for additional co-locations with approval of a zone permit. Improvements proposed outside the lease area include underground utilities, including an approximately 68-foot long unground fiber optic and utility line to an existing Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) utility pole near the lease area and an approximately 235-foot underground fiber optic run from existing PG&E power pole to a new point of connection on an existing fiber optic cable that runs along State Highway 299 East, an approximately 296-foot long all-weather gravel access driveway within a 15-foot-wide access and utility easement, including replacement of an existing bridge crossing over perennial creek that flows in a southerly direction and drains into Hatchet Creek. Excavators, backhoes, bulldozers, trenchers, dump trucks, cranes and similar equipment could all be used for site preparation activities and construction, including clearing, grubbing, and approximately 124 cubic yards of grading, trenching, excavation and backfilling for installation of all facility structures, ancillary equipment, fencing, utilities installation (electricity and fiber optic), and driveway construction. The applicant is requesting an exception from the landscape requirements of the Shasta County Code which requires landscaping to be provided and maintained for the life of the facility to screen any ground structures or equipment.

Montgomery Creek

Shasta

Northern California, Unincorporated

California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 2 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Delta Protection Commission, Delta Stewardship Council, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW)

Power:Solar (Megawatts 3)

Use Permit

Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Geology/Soils, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Archeological/Historical/Geological/Seismic/Soil/Erosion/Compaction/Grading/Wildlife