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DESIGN REVIEW BOARD MINUTES
Conference Room #3
300 Seminary Avenue
Ukiah, CA 95482
December 14, 2017
3:00 p.m.
1. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Liden called the Design Review Board meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. in Conference
Room No. 3, Ukiah Civic Center, 300 Seminary Avenue, Ukiah, California.
Chair Tom Liden presiding.
2. ROLL CALL Present: Member Hise, Hawkes, and Chair Liden
Absent: Member Nicholson and Morrow
Staff Present: Adele Phillips, Associate Planner
Cathy Elawadly, Recording Secretary
Others present: Dan MacKinney, Agent, via telephone
Julie Price, Project Planner
3. CORRESPONDENCE
None was received.
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The Minutes from the October 19, 2017 meeting are available for review and approval.
M/S Hise/Hawkes to approve October 19, 2017 meeting minutes, as submitted. Motion
carried by the following roll call vote: AYES: Member Hise, Hawkes, and Chair Liden.
NOES: None. ABSTAIN: None. ABSENT: Member Nicholson and Morrow.
5. COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCE ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS
Note: The DRB is required by the City Code to review and make a recommendation on all Site
Development Permit applications.
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Request for Review and Recommendation on a Major Site Development Permit and
Permit to allow the construction of a Wireless Communication Facility (WCF) including a
60+ foot tall monopole at 923 Mazzoni Street. APN 002-040-48. File No.: 3145-UP/SDP-
PC.
Adele Phillips, Associate Planner introduced City Planning Consultant Julie Price.
Julie Price, Project Planner presented the project as specifically outlined in a planning
staff inemorandum, dated December 14, 2017 and noted:
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Minutes of the Design Review Board, December 14, 2017, Continued:
• The proposed project involves a WCF and corresponding new 60-foot painted
monopole tower structure that includes five additional feet for a grand total of 65 feet
with the antennas and lighting rod.
• The project is located at the Daniel Steel site on Mazzoni Street and consists of 3.37
acres.
• The project is a standard monopole tower structure on a 2,500 sq. ft. area, located
on the NE corner of the subject property.
• The property is zoned Manufacturing (M) such that there are no rear yard setback
requirements.
• The maximum height limit is 50 feet in the M zoning district. Since the proposed
monopole is over 50 feet, a use permit is required.
• Clarified while the project application was submitted on behalf of Wireless Site
Technology, LLC, the applicant is US Cellular.
• The applicant desires to increase the fence height to 7 feet, not including the barbed
wire.
• Minor revisions have been made to the site plans in response to the City Electric
Department comments regarding the meter bank pedestals and/or other electric-
related issues. (See sheets Z-1 and Z-2)
DRB questions/comments:
• Requested clarification the applicant is leasing from the property owner.
• Is a request for a variance necessary for the seven-foot high fence? Requested
clarification there is a State ordinance/standard that allows for a seven-foot fence
height. It appears the fencing will exceed the seven-foot height restriction with the
barbed wire at the top of the fence.
• Inquired about the diameter of the monopole at the base.
• Referred to page 27 of the project description in the staff report�VI�PQF-I�RZFiI�
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Dan MacKinney, Agent, Wireless Site Technology, LLC:
• Confirmed the applicant will lease from the property owner the area where the
monopole tower structure is located that also includes an easement for access and
utility purposes.
• Related to the revised site plan, sheet Z-2, indicates the plans for the NE corner of
the fenced area have changed where the area has essentially been �TXDIiHG�I I�IID
• Would be amenable to reevaluating the fence height should it exceed the height
limitation/restriction.
• The diameter of the tower is approximately three feet at the base. As such, related to
the tower elevation, there is a below-grade square concrete pad with a circular
concrete pier extending upward where the pier itself is five-feet, six inches, which
essentially calculates to approximately a 40-inch diameter that can effectively
support a 70-foot high monopole.
Member Hise:
• Finds the aforementioned calculation concerning the diameter of the base
corresponds with the site plan in terms of scale.
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Minutes of the Design Review Board, December 14, 2017, Continued:
Associate Planner Adele Phillips:
• Acknowledged the City has adopted a new fence ordinance that allows for a seven-
foot height such that all corresponding front, side, and rear yard setback requirements
in the ordinance provisions must be met accordingly.
• Planning staff will research how the barbed wire component of the fence will be
calculated for consistency with the fence ordinance requirements.
There was discussion about the various aesthetic design concepts for WCF towers and
appropriate placement thereof.
Motion/Second Hise/Hawks to recommend Planning Commission approve the
construction of a Wireless Communication Facility including a 60+ foot tall monopole at 923
Mazzoni Street, as presented. Motion carried by the following roll call vote: AYES: Member
Hawkes, Hise, and Chair Liden NOES: None. ABSENT: Member Nicholson and Morrow.
ABSTAIN: None.
7. MATTERS FROM THE BOARD
The Board members requested staff inform them of their term limits for serving.
8. MATTERS FROM STAFF
Staff advised of an upcoming project the DRB will review in January.
9. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
Cathy Elawadly, Recording Secretary
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