T-Mobile Wireless Telecommunications Facility “SF336 PETALUMA PLAZA”

Posted on March 21, 2025

Project Name: T-Mobile Wireless Telecommunications Facility “SF336 PETALUMA PLAZA”
Address: 151 North McDowell Boulevard Map It 
APN: 007-340-012
City Record Number: PLPJ-2024-0004 (PLUP-2024-0002 / PLSR-2024-0007)
Applicant Name: Andrea Liu, Butler America, for T-Mobile West, LLC
Date of Decision: On or after April 7, 2025, the Community Development Director will consider all comments and either approve, conditionally approve, or deny the project. 
Project Description: The project is subject to review of a Minor Conditional Use Permit and Administrative Site Plan and Architectural Review. The project would involve the installation and operation of new equipment at an existing wireless telecommunications facility. The project would include the following:

  • on the roof of the existing Raley’s store building: 3 radio frequency fiberglass-reinforced polymer enclosures with a top height of 42’-6” above ground level painted Behr antique white and textured to match the existing building (1 per antenna sector) containing 6-panel antennas and associated mounts (2 per antenna sector) and 6 remote radio units (2 per antenna sector), associated cabling, cable trays, and conduit, and certain safety barriers, boundary markings, and signs; and 
  • at ground level behind and abutting the existing Raley’s store building: 1 chain link fence (with slat inserts) enclosure and concrete slab with dimensions of 28’-0” by 10’-4” containing 3 equipment and battery cabinets, 1 LED light

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT: The project is subject to review and discretionary approval of a Minor Conditional Use Permit and Administrative Site Plan and Architectural Review; therefore, the project is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). This project is categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA (Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq. and California Code of Regulations, Section 15000, et seq.) pursuant to Section 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines (Class 1 for “Existing Facilities”) exempting the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use because the minor modifications for construction of this telecommunications facility consist of negligible or no changes in the height of the existing facility or expansion of the size of the existing facility. This project is also categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA (Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq. and California Code of Regulations, Section 15000, et seq.) pursuant to Section 15303 of the CEQA Guidelines (Class 3 for “New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures”) because it involves the construction of what is considered a small new facility and installation of small new equipment and facilities for a telecommunications facility in an area that is permissible by the IZO. Furthermore, the project does not trigger any of the exceptions to the exemption outlined in CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2. 

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