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Commission approves T-Mobile microcell in North Beach with equipment-screening condition

San Francisco Planning Commission · May 12, 2011
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Summary

After lengthy public testimony both for and against, the Planning Commission voted 5–1 to take discretionary review and approve a T-Mobile microcell installation at a prominent North Beach rooftop location, requiring screening of equipment cabinets; opponents had argued the area already had dense antenna coverage and the location was visually prominent.

The Planning Commission on May 11 approved a T-Mobile rooftop microcell installation in North Beach while resolving to require visual screening for equipment cabinets on the building's stair tower.

Planning staff summarized the proposal as a small, 5-foot-tall antenna enclosed in a 10-inch faux vent pipe with accompanying equipment cabinets; staff recommended denying…

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