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Planning Commission backs wireless facilities code updates, asks staff to research limited RF monitoring language

Santa Paula Planning Commission · March 24, 2026
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Summary

The Santa Paula Planning Commission voted to recommend municipal code updates for telecommunication wireless facilities to the City Council and asked staff to research adding a provision, similar to Moorpark —ode, allowing the city to request a field RF-compliance report no more than once every 24 months.

The Santa Paula Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of proposed municipal code updates for telecommunication wireless facilities and asked staff to draft additional language to allow limited post-installation RF-compliance checks.

Staff member (Speaker 3), presenting the municipal code revisions, told the commission the update focuses on aesthetic and siting controls the city may lawfully exercise. "Federal law has taken over...there the city doesn't have just sole control over what it can and can't approve," the staff member said, noting the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Federal…

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