While Burbank city staff work on a comprehensive update of the city’s wireless ordinance, the Planning Department is reviewing a proposed new wireless CUP application tonight that will require information about gap coverage, alternative sites, and DAS facilities.
The WIRELESS AND DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM (“DAS”) PROJECTS SUPPLEMENTAL APPLICATION FORM was distributed in advance to residents for review. The “deemed complete” clause is a helpful one for the city, which now has to contend with the FCC’s “shot-clock” rule requiring a decision within 150 days for a new cell site application, and 90 days for a co-location:
No application for a new wireless site or for a modification of an existing wireless site shall be accepted for processing, determined complete, or be considered for determination of completeness until all required responses to this supplemental application form and required attachments are completed and tendered to the City of Burbank.