Planning Commission approves Rainbow Heights Road wireless facility

The county’s Planning Commission approved a major use permit for a wireless telecommunications facility in Rainbow.

The planning commission voted 4-0, Feb. 28, to grant AT&T the permit to construct and operate a wireless facility. Michael Beck and Michael Edwards were not at the meeting while Doug Barnhart, whose family trust owns telecommunications industry stock, abstained.

The permit allows a 35-foot-tall, false broadleaf tree with 12 panel antennas, two Global Positioning System antennas, 24 remote radio units, three surge suppressors and two radio frequency filters to be installed on the...