CC 09-16-2025 Small Wireless Facilities_PresentationCC 09-16-2025
Item No. 20
Small Wireless Facilities
Presentation
City Council
9/16/2025
SMALL WIRELESS FACILITIES
ORDINANCE AND REGULATIONS
Subject:
Introduce amendments to Cupertino Municipal Code,
adding Title 14, Chapter 14.30 Small Wireless Facilities In
Public Rights-Of-Way, pertaining to regulation of wireless
facilities within City streets.
Recommended Action:
1) Conduct the first reading of Ordinance 25-____ “An
Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cupertino
adding City Code Title 14 Chapter 14.30 Small Wireless
Facilities In Public Rights-Of-Way.”
2) Adopt Resolution No. 25-___ approving the “Regulations
for Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Small
Wireless Facilities in the Public Right of Way.”
3) Find that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA.
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Agenda
●Background
●Ordinance – What is Does
●Regulations – What is New
Background
●Cities Can Regulate
Aesthetic
Appearances
●Cupertino Focused
on Outreach
●Draft Ordinance
strengthens City’s
process
Laws and Regulations
●Authority to Regulate Aesthetics and
Manage Public Right of Way
●Regulation Must Not Be Based on Health
Concerns
●Regulation Must Not “Materially Inhibit”
Wireless Service
●“Shot Clocks” for Application Review
●FCC 2018 Order:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/F
CC-18-133A1.pdf
Prior Information
●Previous study sessions
●May 16, 2017
●May 15, 2018
●July 16, 2019
●May 5, 2020
●September 15, 2020
●April 20, 2021
●Council recommended
consideration of ordinance
●December 16, 2022
●www.cupertino.org/5G
Draft Ordinance
●Requires a Permit
●Adopts Regulations to Implement Ordinance
●Requires Notification within 300’
●Authorizes establishment of Fee
●Provides for Resident Appeals to City Manager
●Provisions for Revocation/Removal of Facilities
Draft Regulations
●Establishes Requirements, including RF
Compliance and Testing
●Encourages Pre-submittal Community
Meetings
●Authorizes Peer Reviews
●Includes Standard Conditions of Approval
●Establishes Preference Tiers
●Includes Detailed Design Standards
●Establishes 1,000-foot minimum between
facilities from same carrier
Proposed Installation Preferences
1 – Collocated Facilities
2- Mixed use and Non-Residential
3 - Residential along Arterial or Main streets
4 - Residential along Major Collector streets
5 - Residential along Minor Collector streets
6 - Other Residential Locations
7 - Within 1,000-feet of another wireless facility owned by the
same carrier.
8 – Within 100-feet of a protected property (PRC 5020.1(j)
9 – Any location within 25-feet of an occupied structure
10 – New Standalone Poles
11 – Installations on Wooden Poles
12 - Strand Mounted Equipment
Subject:
Introduce amendments to Cupertino Municipal Code,
adding Title 14, Chapter 14.30 Small Wireless Facilities In
Public Rights-Of-Way, pertaining to regulation of wireless
facilities within City streets.
Recommended Action:
1) Conduct the first reading of Ordinance 25-____ “An
Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cupertino
adding City Code Title 14 Chapter 14.30 Small Wireless
Facilities In Public Rights-Of-Way.”
2) Adopt Resolution No. 25-___ approving the “Regulations
for Construction, Operation, and Maintenance of Small
Wireless Facilities in the Public Right of Way.”
3) Find that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA.
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