18 - Variance Request for Setback and Placement of a New Wireless Communication Facility - 1902 Bonham Street - LCAD 17245

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Item No. 18 in, = Of TO: City Council FROM: Grayson Path, City Manager SUBJECT: 1902 BONHAM STREET- LCAD 17245 VARIANCE REQUEST FOR SETBACK AND PLACEMENT OF A NEW WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITY (WCF). DATE: OCTOBER 20, 2020 BACKGROUND: Carl Dugan represents Branch Communications of Tulsa, OK. They are proposing to develop and construct a 180' wireless communication tower at 1902 Bonham Street. The Paris West location is owned Ram K. Thappa. The proposed tower is a monopole, and the proposed site is zoned Commercial (C). The applicant has represented that it has an arrangement with a low cost internet provider to locate on the monopole. City Ordinance Sec. 28. Regulation of Wireless Telecommunications Towers and Facilities, section 28.106(c) provides that no setbacks shall be required for towers located on properties zoned Commercial (C), Light Industrial (LI), and Heavy Industrial (HI) provided the actual location of such towers in said zoned areas is at least five hundred (500) feet from areas zoned SF -1, SF -2, SF -3, 2F, MF -1, MF -2, Agricultural (A) and Residential Planned Development (PD). The subject property is zoned Commercial and does not meet the setback requirements from residential. Sec. 28-113 provides that the City Council may, after following notice and public hearing, grant a variance from the setback requirements of Sec. 28.106(c) "on an affirmative sthat a WCF [Wireless Communication Facility] proposed for construction will be constructed in a manner to be totally masked or camoufla tled or to ,be included in an existing structure �f the WCF.... with the which effectively masks the appearance o result that „such. masking or camouflage.renders the proposed WCF invisible to public view. or so coipj atible, in appearance with surrounding uses as to be transaarent in its impact„ „on said surrounding uses." The ordinance further places the burden on the applicant to submit an application "clearly showing that the requirements of masking, camouflaging... specified in ... herein have been satisfied." Hardship is not a matter for consideration under the variance regulations set forth in Sec. 28-113.