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Board splits decision on 104‑foot AT&T tower in Diamond Heights after packed hearing
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing, the Board upheld the planning department’s Class 3 CEQA exemption for AT&T’s proposed 350 Amber Drive monopole but reversed the planning commission’s conditional‑use approval, effectively denying the project as presented. Neighbors raised concerns about height, park adjacency, wildlife and alternatives.
After hours of testimony from neighbors, technical experts, planning staff, and AT&T representatives, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reached a split outcome on the proposal to install a roughly 104‑foot AT&T monopole at 350 Amber Drive. On Feb. 10 the board voted to affirm the planning department’s Class 3 categorical exemption under CEQA (item 20), and separately voted to disapprove the planning commission’s conditional‑use authorization (item 25 as amended).
Appellants led by Katherine Dodd of the Diamond Heights Community Association argued the monopole would be an incompatible, 10‑story industrial structure at the boundary of Glen Canyon Park and residential RH‑1 zoning, and that planning staff improperly used a categorical exemption. “A 104‑foot macro tower would…
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