Cathedral City panel recommends approval of 75-foot "monopalm" cell tower at Landau Boulevard

The Cathedral City Architectural Review Committee on Sept. 3 recommended that the Planning Commission approve Conditional Use Permit 099-2024 to allow SmartLink/AT&T Wireless to install a 75-foot unmanned wireless telecommunications facility disguised as a palm tree at 27620 Landau Boulevard.

Dom Camps, associate planner for Cathedral City, told the committee the applicant proposes to lease an approximately 654-square-foot portion of a 1.46-acre city-owned property that presently includes a roughly 13,000-square-foot building (the northern portion of which houses Fire Station 3). The lease area is a landscaped island adjacent to Landau Boulevard; staff said the installation would not remove any parking spaces.

Camps described the project as a 75-foot monopalm with 12 panel antennas concealed by imitation fronds and a bark-like trunk covering; the proposal includes an 18-by-20-foot equipment…