California Cities Oppose Changes to Wireless Siting Rules
Huntington Beach and Fort Bragg, California, said the FCC should reject petitions by CTIA and the Wireless Infrastructure Association seeking further changes to wireless infrastructure rules (see 1909130062). “Local officials, government, and municipalities are best positioned to defend the interests…
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of the people,” Huntington Beach said in docket 19-250. “Previous rule making and declaratory rulings of the FCC have reduced local agency input on the siting, construction, maintenance, and other matters involving wireless infrastructure and facilities to largely aesthetic matters and few highly limited land use matters,” Fort Bragg said, also posted Tuesday: The petitions “essentially remove the few remaining tools available to local communities to assist in the shaping of how wireless infrastructure and facilities can be successfully integrated into the community such facilities are intended to serve. Standards and requirements that work well for large urban cities, suburban towns, or agricultural regions are ill-fitted to a small, rural community located along a remote section of northern California coastline.”