City of Long Beach - File #: 23-1122

• File #: 23-1122
• Version: 1
• Name: ED - Wireless telecommunications facility at 7250 Carson D4
• Type: Agenda Item
• Status: Approved
• File created: 9/14/2023
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 10/3/2023
• Final action: 10/3/2023
• Title: Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for a new Communications Site Lease with Dish Wireless LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (Dish Wireless), for a new utility-mounted wireless telecommunications facility on City-owned property within a Southern California Edison Company, a California Corporation (SCE) Right of Way Transmission Easement, located at 7250 Carson Boulevard, commonly known as the Long Beach Towne Center, Walmart store parking lot; and Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for an Agreement of Consent to License between the City, Dish Wireless, and SCE to memorialize the City’s and SCE’s mutual consent to the new utility-mounted wireless telecommunications facility on City-owned property within an SCE Right of Way Transmission Easement. (District 4) Levine Act: Yes
• Sponsors: Economic Development

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/3/2023	1	City Council	approve recommendation	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for a new Communications Site Lease with Dish Wireless LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (Dish Wireless), for a new utility-mounted wireless telecommunications facility on City-owned property within a Southern California Edison Company, a California Corporation (SCE) Right of Way Transmission Easement, located at 7250 Carson Boulevard, commonly known as the Long Beach Towne Center, Walmart store parking lot; and

Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for an Agreement of Consent to License between the City, Dish Wireless, and SCE to memorialize the City’s and SCE’s mutual consent to the new utility-mounted wireless telecommunications facility on City-owned property within an SCE Right of Way Transmission Easement. (District 4)

Levine Act: Yes

DISCUSSION
Southern California Edison Company, a California corporation (SCE), maintains a Right-of-Way Transmission Easement (Transmission Easement), which encumbers a portion of City of Long Beach (City)-owned property located at 7250 Carson Boulevard, commonly known as the Long Beach Towne Center, Walmart store parking lot (Premises - Attachment). In 2022, agents for Dish Wireless, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (Dish Wireless), reached out to the City regarding the placement of a new utility-mounted wireless telecommunications facility (WTCF) within the Transmission Easement to improve its broadband wireless network in the area. Dish Wireless has proposed a new WTCF consisting of utility-mounted antennas on an SCE-owned transmission tower (Tower) and a 150-square-foot accessory equipment enclosure, which shall be built directly underneath the Tower. Although the WTCF would be on City-owned property, it would lie within an area that SCE maintains and encumbers via the Transmission Easement, which orients north to south and bisects the Walmart store parking lot; thus, SCE’...