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Amendment Application No. 2006-02 Conditional Use Permit No. 2006-08 April 14, 2008 Page 2 Project Description Sprint PCS and T-Mobile are proposing to colocate on a new 60-foot wireless facility on the south portion of the subject property that is currently used as an electric sub-station. The proposed wireless facility will include 12 antenna panels and a microwave dish for Sprint PCS and 12 antenna panels and a microwave dish for T-Mobile. The wireless facility will be camouflaged as a Canary Island Pine Tree and will have equipment cabinets and GPS antennas for each wireless carrier (Exhibits 3 and 4). The equipment cabinets and GPS antennas will be enclosed by an eight-foot high wrought iron fence with a metal mesh material to screen the equipment. Four 24-inch box Hollywood Junipers (Juniperus chinensis `Torulosa') are proposed (two on each end of the cabinet areas) to match existing Junipers and replace trees that were removed in the leased area. Fifteen Photinia shrubs will be used to provide a landscape screen between the wrought iron fence and the law library on the adjacent parcel to the south (Exhibit 5) A 48-inch box Paperbark Tree (Melaleuca leucadendra) is proposed to replace a missing tree located at the northwest edge of the property along with 40 new Photinia fraseri shrubs along the perimeter of the existing chain link fence (Exhibit 6). Analysis of the Issues The subject property is currently zoned Single-Family Residential (R-1), which prohibits wireless communication facilities. The applicant is requesting a zone change to Arterial Commercial (C-5) to allow the proposed monopine (Exhibit 7). The property has been an electrical sub- station since 1960, when the City approved Conditional Use Permit No. 11. The sub-station is a long-term, non-residential use that will continue to remain at this location for an undetermined period of time. The surrounding uses along Grand Avenue are either retail or institutional so the C-5 zoning designation is appropriate. The proposed zone change makes the property consistent with adjacent commercial uses along Grand Avenue and with the General Commercial (GC) General Plan designation. 75A-3