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Planning director approves re-entitlement for concealed T-Mobile wireless facility at church
Summary
Riverside County approved a wireless plot plan to remove the 10-year expiration on an existing concealed facility at a church (26121 Hemet Street). T-Mobile's representative said no physical modifications are proposed and the company accepts conditions.
Riverside County planning staff presented and the planning director approved a request on Nov. 10 to remove the 10-year expiration on an existing concealed wireless facility at a church on 26121 Hemet Street.
Tim Wheeler told the hearing that wireless plot plan 250007 concerns a concealed rooftop wireless facility at an existing church in the San Jacinto Valley (R1 zoning). Wheeler said the facility had reached the end of its original 10-year entitlement and that the request was to remove that time limit so the site could continue operating. He told the hearing the new equipment would remain concealed behind the front parapet and would not be visible from the surrounding ground level. Wheeler said the project was noticed in the Press-Enterprise and to nearby property owners; the transcript references a notice radius and a count of property owners (transcript language: "285-foot radius" and "85 different property owners"). Staff reported no written support or opposition.
Robert Ramirez, representing T-Mobile, said the application does not propose any physical modifications: "We aren't proposing any modifications to this project," Ramirez said, and confirmed the request was limited to removing the 10-year lifespan condition. He added that T-Mobile accepts the conditions of approval and that any modifications beyond the entitlement would require re-entitlement.
Director John Hildebrand closed the public hearing on item 3.1 and moved to approve plot plan wireless number 250007 to remove the 10-year lifespan condition and continue the facility's entitlement. The transcript records the planning director's motion and approval on the record; no formal roll-call vote tally is provided in the transcript.
County counsel present (unnamed in the transcript) said they had "Nothing to add," and Hildebrand adjourned the hearing. The approval allows continued operation under the conditions specified in the staff report; the transcript does not record subsequent implementation steps or a project completion date.
