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Board upholds Planning Commission approval for wireless installation at 601 14th Avenue after heated community hearing
Summary
After a full hearing with extensive public comment, the Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 to uphold the Planning Commission's conditional-use authorization for four panel antennas concealed in a faux chimney at 601 Fourteenth Avenue.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to uphold a Planning Commission conditional-use authorization for a wireless-telecommunications installation at 601 Fourteenth Avenue, rejecting an appeal from neighborhood residents, the First Slavic Baptist Church and the Lisa Kempner Hebrew Academy.
The proposed installation would place up to four panel antennas concealed in a faux chimney on the building's roof and related support equipment in the basement. Planning staff and the Department of Public Health reviewed the project and concluded the proposed installation complied with applicable planning code standards and FCC radio-frequency (RF) safety thresholds based on the radio-frequency analysis submitted by Hammett & Edison.
Appellants argued the siting was not "desirable" for the neighborhood under Planning Code Section 303(c)(1), contested the technical RF…
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