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Brentwood discusses new "tier 4" cell-tower category to ease coverage gaps while limiting visual impact
Summary
Commissioners reviewed a proposed amendment to the city's personal wireless service facility ordinance that would create a new "tier 4" permitting monopole towers up to 160 feet on government or quasi-government property with multi-carrier requirements, third-party propagation review, public notice within 1,000 feet and camouflage/screening expectations.
The Brentwood Planning Commission spent the regular-agenda portion of the meeting on a proposed amendment to the city's personal wireless service facility ordinance that would add a new "tier 4" category to address known mobile-coverage gaps.
Speaker 7 (identified in the transcript only as Speaker 7) described the proposal as a response to coverage shortfalls and a strict existing ordinance originally drafted in 2001. "So this tier 4 would allow towers up to 160 feet in height," Speaker 7 said, while stressing the city will require multiple carriers on a single tower "to minimize the number of proposed towers." Speaker 7 told the commission the city will require a…
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