PC approves MUP for
Alpine road station tower
By Joe Naiman
The Alpine Sun
ALPINE — The county's Planning Commission unanimously
approved a major use permit for a Sprint Nextel wireless
communications facility on the County of San Diego's Alpine road
station property.
The Nov. 16 approval allows for a 35-foot false pine
tree with 12 antennas and an equipment shelter. The site is in
the 2900 block of Tavern Road.
Although it is currently being used as a Department of
Public Works road station, the 1.95-acre property has the same
A70 agricultural zoning as all surrounding properties. An
agricultural zone is considered a non-preferred zone for a
wireless communications facility, but no other preferred zones
exist which would meet the coverage objective.
The site has a public/semi-public (22) land use
designation, meaning that civic uses are allowed if they support
the local population, and a land use analysis determined that a
wireless facility on the eastern portion of the site was
compatible with aesthetic and community character objectives. In
April 2006 the Alpine Community Planning Group voted to
recommend approval of the project with a stipulation that other
carriers' wireless communications facilities could be co-located
on the tower in the future.
The equipment shelter will measure 20 feet long by
11-and-a-half feet wide by 10 feet in height and will be located
adjacent to the base of the false pine tree. The equipment
shelter will include a power rack, a radio, a rectifier, and
batteries. The total project will occupy less than 530 square
feet of the 1.95-acre parcel.
Access to the area will be from a driveway off Tavern
Road.
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