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Home My WebLink AboutMCUP 06-05; T-Mobile USA Westbluff Plaza; Conditional Use Permit (CUP) (2)w|H|f> m*m City of Carlsbad Planning Department June 13, 2006 Karen Alder Plan Com Inc 302 State Place Escondido, CA 92029 SUBJECT: MCUP 06-05 - T-MOBILE USA, INC. - WESTBLUFF PLAZA Thank you for applying for Land Use Permits in the City of Carlsbad. The Planning Department has reviewed your Minor Conditional Use Permit, application no. MCUP 06-05, as to its completeness for processing. The application is complete, as submitted. Although the initial processing of your application may have already begun, the technical acceptance date is acknowledged by the date oHhis communication. The City may, in the course of processing the application, request that you clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise, supplement the basic information required for the application. In addition, you should also be aware that various design issues may exist. These issues must be addressed before this application can be scheduled for a hearing. The Planning Department will begin processing your application as of the date of this communication. Please contact your staff planner, Erin Endres, at (760) 602-4625, if you have any questions or wish to set up a meeting to discuss the application. Sincerely, DON NEU Assistant Planning Director DN:EE:bd c: Van Lynch: Team Leader David Rick: Project Engineer File Copy Data Entry 1635 Faraday Avenue • Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 • (760) 602-4600 « FAX (760) 602-8559 <• www.ci.carlsbad.ca.us MCUP 06-05 - T-MOBILE UlPf INC. - WESTBLUFF PLAZA June 13, 2006 Page 2 ISSUES OF CONGER^ Planning: Per Agenda Bill No. 18,447, dated February 14, 2006, Wireless Communications Facilities (WCFs) being processed as a Minor Conditional Use Permit (MCUP) shall comply with City Council Policy Statement No. 64. Specifically, the WCF must be consistent with the Preferred Location and Stealth Design Review and Approval Guidelines. In order to comply with this policy please redesign the existing fa?ade mounted antenna to be incorporated into the existing building walls to ensure they comply with the Stealth Design Guidelines of Council Policy No. 64. Please resubmit two sets of revised site plans and photo simulations. TRACKING DESK REC'D: as, Telecommunications Project Management May 17, 2007 * RiCEIVED v „ A W" ?-:1 2007ErmEndres Planning Department ClTV OF CARLSBAD City of Carlsbad f*lANN(NQ DEPT 1635 Faraday Ave. Carlsbad, CA 92008 RE: MCUP 06-05 renewal for West Bluff Plaza, T-Mobile USA Wireless Facility; Submittal of Revised Plans Dear Ms. Endres: On behalf of our client, T-Mobile USA, we are submitting new plan drawings indicating the antenna design we discussed at our meeting of April 10, 2007. Enclosed are two full size copies of the drawings. The antennas on the east elevation have been pulled in toward the finished wall of the building to the greatest extent possible and skirted on all sides to avoid any visible mounting hardware. By reducing the profile of the antennas and mounting hardware, any shadowing from the installation should be minimized. The antennas on the south elevation have been concealed by a new screen and the roofline extended over the screen to better integrate the entire installation into the building architecture. Please let us know if you have any questions or need any additional information. Thank you for your assistance with this project. Sincerely, Ted Marioncelli Project Manager Contract Representative for T-Mobile USA Enclosures 302 State Place Escondido, CA 92029 760-715-3416 mobile 760-735-4913 fax City of Carlsbad PI a n ni h g D e pa rime n't February 26,2007 Ted Marioncelii PlanCoininc 302 State "Place Escondido, CA 92029 SUBJECT: MCUP 06-05 - T MOBILE USA WESTBLUFF ?LA£A Dear Mr. Marioncelii, In response to your letter regarding stealth compliance issues with Wireless Communications Facilities Policy No. 64. the city will accept additional -screening of the existing wall mounted antennas located at the site. Ideal 'screening would allow for the future incorporation and collocation of the additional carrier's antennas on the south elevation. Appropriate screening would match the existing architecture of the building. This could be accomplished by extending the roof line on the 'south elevation and/or other features to blend or hide the existing antennas in to the architecture. Embedment or through the addition of an architectural element to the east -elevation are possibilities to completely concealing the antennas from view. Please submit 2 sets of plans reflecting the proposed screening concepts -for further review. Please contact me at (760)'602-4625 if you have any further questions. Sincerely, -VvJ-jA< ERIN ENDRES Planning Technician I EE:aw 1635 Faraday Avenue • Cartebad, CA 92O08-7314 • (760) 602-4600 • FAX (760) 602-8559 • www.ci.carlsbad.ca.us PLANcoSi Telecommunications Project Management February 12,2007 Erin Endres Planning Department City of Carlsbad 1635 Faraday Ave. Carlsbad, CA 92008 RE: MCUP 06-05 renewal for West Bluff Plaza, T-Mobile USA Wireless Facility Dear Ms. Endres: On behalf of our client, T-Mobile USA, and in response to your request that T-Mobile recess the existing antennas at this location, we are submitting the following information for your review. The city has requested that T-Mobile recess their existing antennas into the stucco wall of the existing building. By doing so, T-Mobile would experience a significant gap in coverage and loss of coverage area from what is now achieved by the existing antennas. Attached are copies of coverage predictions based upon the existing antenna arrangement and the proposed future antenna arrangement. The upper graphic on the page shows the existing coverage; the lower graphic shows the predicted coverage with the antennas embedded in the wall. Please notice the loss of coverage to the south along El Camino Real and to the west along Alga Road. The coverage footprint in these areas will go from "excellent" to "good/variable" along El Camino Real and from "excellent" to "variable" and "poor" along Alga Road. Both of these areas are critical coverage areas for this site. The area along El Camino Real is a heavily traveled commercial area and the area to the west along Alga Road is both commercial and residential. As difficult as it is to cover residential areas, the existing site provides critical coverage to the residences to the west from an existing commercially-located site. Elimination of the coverage from this site will necessitate the building of a new site, potentially in the residential area. Although the stated objective of the city's wireless policy is to have carriers use the "latest and most diminutive technology," there is no technology that will allow antennas to propagate a signal through the load bearing walls of the existing building. We have 302 State Place Escondido, CA 92029 760-715-3416 mobile 760-735-4913 fax PL AN COM 1 Telecommunications Project Management agreed to screen the antennas in place to hide them from view; this would allow the site to continue coverage to the critical areas along Alga Road and El Camino Real. Please let us know if you have any questions or need any additional information. Thank you for your assistance with this project. Sincerely, Ted Marioncelli Project Manager Contract Representative for T-Mobile USA Enclosures 302 State Place Escondido, CA 92029 760-715-3416 mobile 760-735-4913 fax |Q6367 West Bluff Plaza 6994-B El camino real Carlsbad, CA 92009