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Home My WebLink About1996-04-23 ARC Regular Meeting Agenda ''�.r� � AGENDA PALM DESERT ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION TUESDAY - APRIL 23, 1996 12 :30 P.M. - COMMUNITY SERVICES CONFERENCE ROOM 73-510 FRED WARING DRIVE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I . CALL TO ORDER II . APPROVAL OF MINUTES: March 26, 1996 III . ORAL COMMUNICATIONS: 1. Any person wishing to discuss any item not otherwise on the agenda may address the commission at this point by stepping to the lectern and qivinq his/her name and address for the record. Remarks shall be limited to a maximum of five minutes unless additional time is authorized by the commission. 2 . This is the time and place for any person who wishes to comment on non-hearing agenda items . It should be noted that at commission discretion, these comments may be deferred until such time on the agenda as the item is discussed. Remarks shall be limited to a maximum of five minutes unless additional time is authorized by the commission. IV. CASES: A. Final Drawinqs : 1. CASE NO: 4633 SA APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : SUPERIOR ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING for DENNY' S, 1700 West Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813-1195 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval to reface existing free standing sign LOCATION: 72-950 Highway 111 ZONE• C-1 2 . CASE NO: 4405 SA APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : ZANTMAN ART GALLERIES, 73-925 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Addition of "open" sign to legal, non-conforming, free standing sign LOCATION: 73-925 E1 Paseo ZONE• C-1 : > , � � AGENDA ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMI5SION APRIL 23, 1996 3 . CASE NO: 4636 SA APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : RIOFINE NEON for BANANAZ , 3500 Tachevah, Unit D, Palm Springs, CA 92262 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval to change existing non-illuminated entrance sign to exposed neon LOCATION: 72-291 Highway 111 ZONE• C-1 4. CASE NO: 422 C APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : PACIFIC BELL MOBILE SERVICES, 2955 Red Hill Avenue, Suite 100, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval to install wireless communication facility LOCATION: 72-770 E1 Paseo ZONE: C-1 5 . CASE NO: 425 C APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : PACIFIC BELL MOBILE SERVICES, 2955 Redhill Avenue, Suite 100, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval to install wireless communication facility LOCATION: 74-876 Avenue 42 ZONEc S. I . 2 ., � � AGENDA ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION APRIL 23, 1996 B. Preliminary Plans: 1. CASE NO: PP 96-4 APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : OLIPHANT, MATZNER, 77-900 Avenue of the States, Palm Desert, CA 92211 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval of preliminary architectural and landscaping plans for remodel and addition to an existing office structure LOCATION: 44-311 Monterey Avenue ZONE: O.P. C. Miscellaneous : 1 . CASE NO: APPLICANT (AND ADDRESS) : SANTA ROSA DEVELOPERS, 2300 Olive Street, Gavelin Hills, CA 92570 NATURE OF PROJECT/APPROVAL SOUGHT: Approval of single family residence above 15 feet in height LOCATION: 23 Taylor ZONE: V. ADJOURNMENT ***************************************************************** DECLARATION OF POSTING I, Donna C. Bitter, of the Community Development Department of the City of Palm Desert, do hereby declare that the foregoing agenda for the Architectural Review Commission meeting of Tuesday, April 23, 1996, was posted on the bulletin board by the outside entry to the Council Chamber, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, on Friday, April 19, 1996 . Dat . April 19, 1996 DONNA C. BITTER Senior Office Assistant City of Palm Desert, California 3 RECEiVED ,• . � ` � � AP� 12 1996 . � .�`;:�; :^p-,.,�-'�"-'�--�r-�t!'�":�� , ,�.,�;.e,. . . . � $iti......__ ' � w�' »n ,;. : - - k{e�Q�"�il.'�; �-'�(:�I��CYbi?Tt`a1'li. ':,..�,� .., _;..., fI1Cr@�i�i?�:= ' �i Y111'•��R3$S l�leiiA!l9�1�. �''�has•:F:J�pp�l�.;u, �,.,.; . Vol. 1, No. 2 Wireless Update April 1996 High Stakes Competition is Based on Second Issue of Wireless Update Technology Differences For those of you who missed Vol. 1,Number 1 of Cities and counties will soon be wondering"why is there Wireless Update,there aze still a few back issues available. PCS when we already have cellulaz?" The differences are If you would like a copy,please call Kreines&Kreines,Inc. technological,and each carrier is betting heavily on its at(415)435-9214. We appreciate the comments we technology to provide more rapid and cheaper received on the first issue,e.g.: communications in the 21 st Century. Why send small cities articles about large cities like First there was cellular,and cellular was initiated as San Francisco and San Diego? The needs of small analog. Those tall cellulaz towers aze sending out analog cities are di,�"erent than those of the larger cities. signals for miles azound. By now,cellular carriers may be The reason is: the wireless issue is being framed in the converting to digital signals,sometimes sent from the same larger cities first Carriets realize that the biggest payoff tower but often requiring new"infill" cell sites. will occur within the jurisdictions where they have the most Now comes PCS(Personal Communications Services) cell sites. These same carriers hope that the precedents set which is digital,and which also needs cell sites: hundreds in their most successful cities will influence their positions of thousands of them across the U.S. PCS,by all accounts, in future applications before small cities. can deliver more types of inessages(voice,data,video) Further,lazge cities have the staff and resources to deal quicker and cheaper than cellulaz. And PCS will use lower with this relatively new concern and they can therefore (not necessarily smaller)antennas because most cell sites respond more quickly and comprehensively. will cover much less area. But,there will need to be But does that mean that the large cities'review and thousands more PCS cell sites than cellulaz and there are approval procedures will set the tone for small cities? very few up and running in early 1996. Cellulaz can yyireless Update would appreciate your opinion,by fax, if provide digital services sooner than PCS in many areas,but possible,at(415)435-1522. PCS carriers claim they will dominate the wireless market in the 21st Century(once they get those antennas permitted). MO�@ ACC011y111S: GSM & CDMA And all carriers are in a hurry. PCS carriers aze split(almost 50-50)on the digital San Diego Ciarifies Its Position, Says "Yes" technology they rely on. PBMS is using PCS-1900,a variant of the European GSM(Global System for Mobile As reported in the March issue of Wireless Update(Vol. communications). This is a proven and already operational 1.,No. 1.),the City of San Diego had delayed any action on technology. Sprint Spectrum and its three cable narmers YBMS(Pacific Bell Mobile Services)permits on 12 cell (Cox,ComCast and TCI)are betting on CDMA(Code sites;but on March 19, 1996,the City Council clarified its Division Multiple Access). CDMA is California-developed position(5-3 vote)to allow PBMS to go ahead. According (Qualcomm,Inc.in San Diego)but still has some testing to to Wireless Week(3/25/96),the main stumbling block to do. GSM carriers may provide PCS sooner,but CDMA approval was a vigorous lobbying effort by the California carriers may have the superior technology. Communications Council(CCC). The CCC claims that the �at does this mean for cities and counties? Picture PBMS technology interferes with hearing aids,anti-lock your jurisdiction almost 100 years ago,when horse-drawn braking systems,automatic wheelchairs and auto air-bags. streetcazs competed with cable cars and then along came According to Wireless Week,CCC is funded by the electric trolleys. Each carrier served different areas better, Wireless Communications Council(WCC)in Washington relied on differing technologies and had varying rail D.C. WCC is a group founded by James Valentine,who specifications. And so it is with wireless: local invests�and supports a rival technology to that proposed by governments can either help these competitors co-exist,or PBMS. The two technologies(GSM and CDMA)are they can just let free enterprise determine who goes where discussed in the next column. and how long they can outlast each other. Published by Kreines &Kreines, lnc., 58 Paseo MirasoJ, �buron, CA 94920, (415)435-9214 ., � � �;;,,sfi�ar;�� carrie*�a�ess desirable location nearby. This will,in turn, +.'t .: ..°, :_c:.;: . �q�:�` � .:�_ �:_..._. . desirable celi site,ana so on u�iu<<,►��,........r.........�,� In the March issue of Wireless Update(Vol. 1,No. 1), subject trr challenge by the last carrier to apply. three sub-sections of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 were reproduced. The authors of Wireless Update believe `I`he Telecommunications Act of 1996 would be easy to that Section 704(a)(7)(B)of the Act will generate the most impleme�at the local level if all the carriers were identified debate within local governments: and prepaa�ed to deploy their cell sites at the same time. But, The regulation of the placement, construction, and as disc�in Che article below,it is impossible to even estimate who all the cazriers will be and when they will be modification of personal wireless service facilities by ready to deploy. . any State or local government or instrumentality rhereof- Who 11Viit1 Ali the Carriers Be? And Where � shall not unreasonably discriminate among Will They All Want Cell Sites? providers of functionally equivalent services;and tiyireless Update asked the first question of Michael . shall not prohibit or have the efject of prohibiting Wack(�-418-1322)of the FCC. His answer(and he was the provision of personal wireless services. tty�ng tow be as helpful as he could be)was"Your guess is as At first glance,this appears to be a restatement of the good as tnine" 14th Amendment to the U.S.Constitution: all citizens aze 'I'}le�e are two cellular carriers per CGSA[Cellulaz entitled to due process and to equal protection under the Geogr�rhical Service Area,a multi-county trade area law. roughly�uivalent to a Primary Metropolitan Statistical A closer look at the above sub-section,however,raises Area(P'h+fSA)]. In 1995,FCC auctions for two PCS cartiers the following issues: were hdd for 51 multi-state areas(MTAs or Major Trade ■ "Unreasonably discriminate"-would the permitting of Areas� Two CGSAs plus two MTAs equal four carriers. several wireless antennas in a particular zoning district in Now a BTA(Basic Trading Area,several of which nest in 1996,and the subsequent denial of a new permit in the an MTh�auction is being held. That makes five carriers, same district in 1997,be reasonable? and three more BTA auctions aze planned. The total of ■ "Functionally equivalent" -is PCS functionally eight c�iers really becomes nine when Nextel(neither PCS equivalent to cellulaz? Is GSM functionally equivalent nor cel6�iar,but Enhanced Mobile Services Radio)is to CDMA? Are panel antennas functionally equivalent considered. to whip antennas? Evcit if nine carriers were the upper limit(and nine is ■ "Have the effect of prohibiting"-can a discretionary probab�yy a low number),it will be yeazs before all carriers review continue to deny applications until the carrier apply�'or all of their cell sites. It's a first-come,first-served "gets it right," and, if the carrier loses patience,will that situation: some cities and counties have yet to hear from the carrier have the right to seek redress in the courts? first PCS cazrier or its consultants. As the prime cell site ■ What about a variance? Must a variance that is granted locatia�get permitted,the following questions will get to one carrier be available to the others? Don't a11 raised 6ry the Johnny-come-latelys: vari�uices tend to discriminate? ■ �T does the last carrier to agply�et penalized? ■ CaE►the city or applicant force an existing carrier into a These are loaded questions,particularly in a community that ��ble up"or co-locarion arrangement? limits any type of land use(or accessory use)on the basis of � �happens when an azea becomes saturated with saturation. a�ennas? (And who defines"saturation"?) For example,does your community guard against the �e are the kinds of issues that suggest a Wireless proliferation of adult bookstores,tanning salons,chain Anteana Master Plan. Is it possible to plan for all wireless stores,shopping centers or any other use that some may find �te�as before the several carriers a 1 or should cities. objectionable when concentrated in one azea? Keep in mind PP y' that the best cell sites are in a few selected locations. The and coturties continue to react to each individual(or batch) first carrier in the best location will tend to subject the next cell s�te application? This is a question that Wireless Updote will answer in succeeding issues. <: , , , ; ' ; What.Does Kreines l�Krei�ss, inc.Do? ; Kreines&I�reines,Inc.offers wireless antenna�Ianntng servicesf�rat�es'an�aounttes tn�ne Sa�r 14rea city this montli, .; I�.reines 8i I�ze�nesi I�zc.staffv+�ill tae leading a�vorksh�p on h�t�pl�n,permit and tn�n�tar t}i��se new de�ices Published by Kreines 8 Kreines, lnc., 58 Paseo M�ol, Tiburon, CA 94920, (415)435-9214