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Planning Commission Minutes January 19, 2006 Page 2 I P] A.1 0 3.3 LANDS OF LOS ALTOS HILLS (APPLICANT: CINGULAR WIRELESS), 2 6379 Fremont Road (214-05-ND-IS-SD-CLJP); A Site Development Permit and Conditional Use Permit for an unmanned wireless and emergency communications facility consisting of three (3) pain of panel antennas and four (4) emergency communications antennas mounted on a 70' tall artificial tree pole with associated ground equipment at Town Hall. A 5'6" emergency radio antenna is proposed to be installed on top of the 70' pole for a total height of 75'6." No antennas are proposed to extend beyond the sides or above the tree canopy. The Planning Commission will also review the Cingular Wireless Three to Five Year Antenna Master Plan Application pursuant to Policy #6 of the Town Wireless Communication Facilities Policy (staff -Debbie Pedro). Staff introduced this item by providing an over view of the Cingular wireless 3-5 year Master Plan as required by the Town's Wireless Communications Policy showing all sites anticipated to be required by the carrier for the next 3-5 years, to the best of their knowledge. There ane currently four Cingular Wireless sites within the Town of Los Altos Hills: Foothill College; Little League Field; Purissima Hills Water District site on Ascension; and Cal Trans property at 1-280 and Arastraderci Road. The project in front of the Commission is for the Town Hall facility There will also be a cell site proposed at the Purissima Hills Water District site on Arastradero Road and Purissima Road. There is a third project submitted by Cingular at St. Luke's Chapel which will be before the Commission in the near future. Them are two other sites on the Cingular's master plan; Moon Lane and Purissima Hills Water District site on Matudero Creek Court. Staff provided an overview PowerPoint presentation of all the proposed sites. She further discussed the proposal for a wireless and emergency communications facility consisting of three (3) pairs of panel antennas and four (4) emergency communications antennas mounted on a 70 foot tall artificial tree pole with associated ground equipment. A 5'6" Town emergency radio antenna is proposed to be installed on top of the 70 foot pole for a total height of 75'6". The proposed emergency communications antennas will be connected to equipment in the existing Emergency Operations Center (Heritage House). She provided some slides of other tree poles located in Palo Alto and Mountain View. The tree pole design was selected as it will blend in best with the existing buildings and landscaping in the surrounding area. The wrial photograph shows the distance of the facility to the nearest residences; the closest residence at 120 feet away on Conejo Court; the farthest away is 330 feet away on Esperanza Drive. To mitigate the potential view impact of the tree pole, staff is recommending the installation of a number of fast growing evergreen trees, six of them to be planted on the north property line to screen the view from the Bien property, six trees t