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PROOstadium. F O.K. BY Verizon Wireless proposed two 80-foot-tall light standards at the Oak Ridge High School On :one of the towers ____ ____ ________________ the company hoped to install nine antennas to boost cell service to customersPLinEA the area. ____ SE RE AD CAREFULLY
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that pole to get bigger and bigger in diameter,” she added. After a protracted discussion at last week’s El An additional 320-square-foot lease area would Dorado County Planning Commission, Verizon Wireless’ request for a conditional use permit for an house cell tower equipment concealed by a 6-foottall chain link fence with green privacy slats. Both Oak Ridge High School cell tower installation was lease areas are within the Oak Ridge High School unanimously denied. football field. No grading or Epic Wireless Group, conremoval of oak trees would tracted by Verizon Wireless, sought to remove two exist“The application is lacking result from the installation. The west side’s poles were ing 55-foot-tall light standards the basic criteria that we replaced in 2007, one of which on the east side of the school’s houses three cell tower antenna stadium, replacing them with need.” arrays and is a collocation two 80-foot-tall stadium light between T-Mobile and Sprint. standards to match those on — Commissioner James Williams A supporting equipment facility the opposite side. One of the area is situated on the northproposed light standards would western end of the football stadium bleachers. house nine antennas along with stadium lights and The main contention was voiced by speakers within a 175-foot lease area. The second Commissioner Amanda Ross, who requested analylight standard is for stadium lights and speakers sis into the collocation of cell equipment on a single only. pole — one that has already been replaced. “The school has expressed that they have slightly “Your current site analysis doesn’t give us that inferior lighting on that side because the towers are information even though you’re telling us verbally,” not as tall as on the west side,” said Epic Wireless Group representative Sara King, explaining that the she said. “But I have no data to go off of that’s saygoal was to achieve a consistent visual between all ■ See TOWER, page 5 four light poles.
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El Greco fawn, right, goes nose-to-nose with her best friend. They were released together along with three other rescues earlier this year.
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ast July a fawn was seen on the corner of El Greco Court and Goya Way in Serrano stumbling about, seemingly unable to navigate her surroundings. Sierra Wildlife Rescue fawn rehabber Dave Cook, known affectionately as the “deer man,” received a call and sped over to what he thought would be a routine rescue. “It was bumping into trees and all kinds of things in a ■
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