Planning Commission approves MUP for wireless facility on FPUD Willow Glen site

The county’s Planning Commission approved a Major Use Permit for Sprint Nextel to construct and operate a wireless communications facility and equipment shelter at the Fallbrook Public Utility District’s Willow Glen water tank site.

The 6-0 vote April 6, with Planning Commissioner Adam Day absent, allows for a faux pine tree 45 feet high which will carry up to 15 panel type antennas measuring six feet in height. The antennas will be painted to match the fake tree’s color, and the equipment shelter measuring 20 feet by 11 1/2 feet by 10 feet will be located adjacent to the base of the tree look...