SCH Number 2025080318

Project Info

Title

Use Permit 23-0006 Verizon Wireless

Description

The project is a use permit application to construct, operate, and maintain an unmanned commercial wireless telecommunications facility within a 40-foot by 60-foot ground lease area on an undeveloped parcel. The project site is accessed by an existing 12 to14-foot wide, 1,300-foot-long unimproved driveway. The equipment and tower would be constructed on a previously-disturbed portion of the subject property, at the apex of a hill approximately 1,376 feet in elevation. The lease area would be graded and enclosed by an 8-foot-tall chain-link fence and gate. Proposed improvements include a 100-foot-tall co-locatable monopine tower with one (1) tri-sector antenna mount with three (3) antennas per sector, two (2) microwave dishes and six (6) remote radio units (RRUs). Ancillary equipment, including one (1) surge suppressor, would be installed on the tower to augment the wireless telecommunication service. Three (3) outdoor equipment cabinets, one (1) telco box, a 400A meter bank, 200A Verizon meter, one (1) surge suppressor, a PG&E transformer, and a 30-kilowatt diesel backup generator with a 203-gallon diesel fuel tank would also be constructed within the lease area. The equipment area would be lighted by five (5) L.E.D work lights with motion sensor control. Improvements outside of the lease area would include a new connection to an existing power pole on Sugar Pine Camp Road, and installation of an underground utility power line and a fiber optic cable with five (5) pull boxes spaced every 300 feet along the driveway to the project site. Construction of an approximately 1,300-foot-long all-weather gravel access driveway within a proposed 14-foot-wide access and utility easement would include grading to widen the existing driveway to 14 feet in certain places where the driveway is only 12 feet wide and to construct two (2) turnouts to meet fire safety standards. Approximately 43,935 square-feet (just over 1 acre) of grading is proposed to prepare the project site for construction, to trench for utilities, and to bring the driveway into conformance with the fire safety standards. A stockpile area within the lease area is proposed for temporary storage of graded material before it is hauled off-site. Erosion and sediment control measures during construction are proposed and include a stabilized construction entrance at the base of Sugar Pine Hill Road, and fiber rolls and silt fence installation along the driveway. 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 3,724 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.

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