For City Council Meeting [April 23, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Fred Galante, City Attorney
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Request that the City Council (i) Adopt Urgency Ordinance No. 1616, entitled "An Urgency Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Rialto, California Adding Chapter 11.20 of the Rialto Municipal Code Relating to Wireless Telecommunications Facilities within the Right-of-Way", (ii) Set A Public Hearing For May 14, 2019 to Introduce for First Reading an Ordinance, Entitled " An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Rialto, California, Adding Chapter 11.20 of the Rialto Municipal Code Relating to Wireless Telecommunications Facilities within the Right-Of-Way, and (iii) Approve Resolution No. 7494, entitled "A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Rialto, California, Approving a City Council Policy for Small Wireless Facilities In the Public Right-Of-Way And Corresponding Design Standards". POWERPOINT
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BACKGROUND:
In prior decades, wireless antennas and equipment were primarily installed on large towers or "macro-cells" on private property. These deployments are subject to conditional use permit approval under Chapter 18.111 (Wireless Telecommunications Facilities) of the Rialto Municipal Code and are currently prohibited in residential zones.
In recent years, however, wireless communications providers and carriers increasingly seek to place wireless facilities in the City's public right of way (ROW) on utility poles, streetlights, and new poles. The demand for such wireless installations, particularly small wireless facilities (or "SWFs"), is expected to grow exponentially over the next several years, given the expansion of home streaming video, social media, drones, self-driving cars and the Internet of Things (IoT) serving homes and businesses. To accommodate this expansion, the telecommunications industry is starting to look for small cell 5G (fifth gen...
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