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Board presses city departments on small‑cell permits after staff flag multiple Extonnet noncompliance cases
Summary
City health, planning and public‑works officials told the Board of Appeals they rely on licensed engineers' pre‑installation RF models and on post‑installation verification; staff disclosed about 23 Extonnet sites with deviations from approved plans and said notices of deficiency were issued with 30 days to fix them.
San Francisco — The Board of Appeals spent much of its July 27 meeting focused on small‑cell wireless permits after staff from the Department of Public Health, Planning and Public Works described how the city reviews and enforces installations on utility poles and street‑facing equipment.
Patrick Fostal, the Department of Public Health’s principal inspector who manages the city’s cell‑antenna program, told commissioners the federal public‑exposure benchmark for the frequencies at issue is “1 milliwatt per centimeter squared,” and that the department evaluates engineering reports prepared by licensed engineers against that standard. He said the city relies on conservative pre‑installation…
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