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Carmel speakers explain two-step land-use review for wireless sites and pledge funding to oppose FCC rulemaking
Summary
City hosts explained the two-step completeness-and-merit land-use review for wireless facilities, warned of an active FCC rulemaking that could limit municipal regulation, and said councilmembers agreed to contribute about $3,000 to respond.
Speakers on a Carmel-by-the-Sea briefing outlined how land-use applications for wireless telecommunications are reviewed in two steps: a preliminary completeness review followed by a merit-based project review. They also said the Federal Communications Commission is pursuing rulemaking that could curtail municipal authority over small-cell wireless facilities, and that the…
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