DATE: April 11, 2023
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ORDINANCE FINDING THE BOARD ACTION EXEMPT UNDER THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA), INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CEQA GUIDELINES SECTIONS 15301, 15302 AND 15303 AND AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO TIDELANDS USE AND OCCUPANCY PERMIT WITH NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC APPROVING ADDITIONAL SMALL CELL SITE(S) FOR POTENTIAL INSTALLATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
New Cingular Wireless, PCS, LLC a Delaware limited liability company (New Cingular), a subsidiary of AT&T Mobility Corporation, has a Tidelands Use and Occupancy Permit (TUOP) with the District (see Attachment A). The term of the TUOP is 5 years with two 5-year extension options and conditionally grants New Cingular the requisite property rights to install small cellular wireless communications facilities (WCF) on two specific streetlights within the public right-of-way (PROW) on District tidelands.
WCF - the equipment and supporting structures used to provide wireless service - can take a range of forms, from large scale towers purpose-built to support numerous facilities, to small scale facilities often incorporated into or attached onto existing structures, such as streetlights. Recent advancements in wireless technology, namely "Fifth Generation" (commonly called "5G") are often deployed as "small cells", which are lower powered and smaller than typical WCF and are often deployed on streetlights, utility poles, or similar infrastructure in the PROW.1
New Cingular has requested to amend their TUOP to add an additional location for the potential installation of a small cell WCF on a streetlight within the PROW located off North Harbor Drive, referred to as "Site 3", and to relocate "Site 2" (as currently set forth on Exhibit A to the TUOP) off Kettner Boulevard to a new streetlight across the street due to better undergrounding power availability at the new site (each site, a "Pre-S...
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