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Applicant offers revised modeling and post‑installation testing; staff points to municipal condition enabling enforcement
Summary
T‑Mobile’s representative told the commission the proposed rooftop collocation replaces an expiring lease and can provide revised emissions modeling and cumulative AT&T+T‑Mobile reports; staff highlighted condition 8 that allows the community development director to require RF‑engineer certification and post‑installation testing.
In response to neighborhood commentary at the July 21 hearing, the applicant said a currently operating nearby site will be decommissioned and that the T‑Mobile proposal is intended to meet coverage objectives while minimizing neighborhood impacts.
"The intent is to build this project, get it operational, and then the existing facility will be decommissioned," the applicant said. The applicant also apologized for an earlier typo in the gap report reference and offered to prepare revised emissions modeling that specifically includes the adjacent residences and to provide cumulative modeling that accounts for the existing AT&T installation. He proposed post‑installation readings from specific on‑site locations and periodic field studies (for example, every five years) subject to property‑owner access.
Staff reiterated that the municipal code and draft resolution already include condition 8, which empowers the community development director to require a written RF engineer report signed under penalty of perjury if there is reason to suspect noncompliance with RF exposure laws. Counsel reminded the commission that collocation applications have limited federal timing for approval, but staff and applicant agreed to produce supplemental analyses and to discuss periodic monitoring language to be returned to the commission on Aug. 4.
