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Board upholds Department of Public Works on multiple AT&T surface‑mounted facility denials
Summary
After hearings and wide public comment about notification and siting, the Board of Appeals denied clustered AT&T appeals challenging Department of Public Works denials of surface‑mounted facility (SMF) permits; commissioners cited notice complexity, city greening and technical constraints and voted to uphold DPW in multiple 4–0 decisions.
San Francisco’s Board of Appeals on April 16 heard consolidated challenges from AT&T to Department of Public Works denials of excavation permits for surface‑mounted facilities (SMFs) at numerous addresses across the city. After multiple clustered hearings, extensive public testimony and lengthy questions from commissioners, the board denied the AT&T appeals and upheld DPW decisions in the clustered matters presented that evening.
AT&T attorney Foster Johnson argued that DPW repeatedly failed to follow the SMF order and the timing requirements of state law (citing the 60‑day rule in California Public Utilities Code §5885), that hearing officers improperly denied applications rather than…
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