County File #LP09-2037 Verizon Telecommunications Facility at 19430 Vasco Road in the Byron Area

County File #LP09-2037 Verizon Telecommunications Facility at 19430 Vasco Road in the Byron Area

The applicant seeks approval of a land use permit to establish a new wireless telecommunications facility on a property owned by the Contra Costa Water District on which the District operates a water transfer station. The proposed facility consists of nine (9) Verizon Wireless panel antennas and six (6) Metro-PCS panel antennas to be mounted inside of and concealed by a proposed 48-foot tall faux water tower. In addition to the antenna, an equipment area is proposed which would contain eight (8) equipment cabinets, one (1) diesel generator and a 210 gallon fuel tank, one (1) power meter, two (2) GPS antennas, and two (2)electrical boxes to work in conjunction with Verizon antennas. There is no Metro-PCS equipment proposed aside from the antennas. The proposed electrical equipment area is to be mounted on a concrete pad supported by a retaining wall up to three (3) feet in height in places. The entire equipment area is encircled by a fence with a maximum height of up to six (6) feet (not including three strands of barbed wire proposed on top of it). The total height of the entire retaining wall/fence combination never exceeds nine (9) feet at any point.

Byron

Contra Costa

California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency

Commercial (Acres 38, Employees 0)

Use Permit

Biological Resources, Geology/Soils