Use Permit 25-0002

Use Permit 25-0002

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 an approximately 10-acre parcel that is developed with a single-family residence and associated residential accessory structures. The lease area would be graded, and enclosed by a 6-foot-tall chain-link fence with faux ivy screening. Proposed improvements include a 130-foot-tall monopine tower with three four-sector antenna mounts designed to accommodate up to twelve (12) antennas, and twelve (12) remote radio units (RRU’s). Other improvements include one 6-foot microwave antenna, one (1) 30-kilowatt backup generator with a 216-gallon diesel fuel tank on a 3-foot-8-inch by 7-foot-6-inch concrete slab, three (3) ground equipment cabinets, one (1) equipment canopy, and other ancillary equipment. The tower would allow for two (2) future co-location sites for other carriers, and surplus ground lease space would be reserved for future carriers to co-locate at the facility. The lease area would illuminated by three (3) L.E.D. service lights with motion sensor control directed toward the proposed ground equipment. The tower will not be lit. Improvements proposed outside the lease area include 1,014 feet of trenching for underground utilities, installation of an above ground utility connection to serve the facility, construction of an approximately 874-foot long 12-foot-wide graveled access driveway with a culvert and a 12-foot wide gate with a Knox box, and a PG&E transformer. Excavators, backhoes, bulldozers, trenchers, dump trucks, cranes and similar equipment could all be used for site preparation activities and construction. Approximately 0.5 acres of grading, trenching, excavation and backfilling involving approximately 395 cubic yards of cut, 250 cubic yards of fill, will be necessary to install facility structures, ancillary equipment, fencing, utilities (electricity and fiber optic), and to construct the driveway. Construction of the driveway and wireless telecommunications facility requires the removal of approximately sixteen (16) oak trees. 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.

Anderson

Shasta

Northern California, Unincorporated

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW), 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 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), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights

Other (Wireless Telecommunications Facility )

Use Permit

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