Planning Commission allows replacement of Verizon tower

The county's Planning Commission has approved a replacement of the Verizon wireless communications tower in the 4100 block of Holly Lane in Bonsall.

A 6-0 Planning Commission vote Nov. 16, with Michael Edwards absent, modified an existing permit to allow Verizon to remove the existing 54-foot-tall monopole and construct a facility camouflaged as a 60-foot-tall false broadleaf tree.

The 15.05-acre parcel has A70 Limited Agriculture zoning, and the first Major Use Permit for that site was issued in March 1991 when the county's Planning and Environmental Review Board (which was abolished in 2004)...