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CZMC Minutes
September 21, 2020
A meeting of the Coastal Zone Management Commission (CZMC) was held on Monday, September 21,
2020 via Zoom and was aired live on LMCTV. A public email account was monitored during the
meeting for the submission of public comments and LMCTV provided a written transcript of the meeting.
The meeting was called to order at 7:50 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Matthew Teitsch, Meeting Chairman
Kanan Sheth
Sara Hanna
Bob Fletcher
OTHERS PRESENT:
Elizabeth Aitchison, Environmental Planner, Town of Mamaroneck
Councilwoman Jaine Elkind Eney, Liaison to Town of Mamaroneck Town Board
David Kenny, Attorney for Homeland Towers
Robert Burns, Homeland Towers
Matthew Alan, Consultant for Homeland Towers
Klaus Wimmer, Homeland Towers
David Tulchin, Consultant for Homeland Towers
1. Roll Call
2. Approval of Minutes
The minutes of the August 18, 2020 meeting were approved as submitted.
3. Referral – Homeland Towers, LLC & Verizon Wireless – Cell Tower at Bonnie Briar
Country Club, 808 Weaver Street
The presentation was led by David Kenny, the Attorney for Homeland Towers for the installation
and operation of a cell tower at Bonnie Briar Country Club. The tower will be located next to the
maintenance facility on the west side of the golf course. The base of the tower will be screened
by a row of existing evergreens that were planted when the new maintenance facility was
constructed. The tower will be 125 feet in height and designed to resemble a large pine tree
(described by the applicant as a monopine) with a brown pole and green branches to screen and
soften the appearance of the antennae mounted on the pole. The applicant demonstrated that this
was the best possible location on the golf course for the tower to provide cellular service and to
fill gaps in coverage in the area.
A visual assessment was conducted early in the spring before the trees leafed out by flying a large
balloon at the height of the tower. Photographs were taken of the balloon from potential vantage
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points throughout the area. Where the balloon was visible, a rendering was created to
demonstrate how the proposed monopine would look. Based on this report, the monopine design
is expected to reasonably soften the look of the tower when seen through existing trees. It was
suggested that in lieu of planting additional screening at Bonnie Briar, planting could be done at
the Larchmont Reservoir property to make the tower less visible from the trails during the winter
months. The Town’s tree planting fund could be used as a mechanism to pay for evergreen
screening on the reservoir property.
According to the applicant, the tower is not expected to have any impact on wildlife. The
structure will not require lighting and they have never had an issue with nesting birds in their
other facilities. Should any birds nest on this structure, the nest would be removed if the nest was
determined to be a hazard to the structure, i.e. a fire hazard or interfering with the operation of the
facility. If this is the case, they would notify the appropriate state or federal agency. The project
is being referred to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for comments.
The facility is located in an area identified on the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation’s Cultural Resource Information System as an Archaeologically Sensitive Area.
Because of the preexisting amount of disturbance at the site of the proposed cell tower, it is
unlikely that there would be anything of significance found during the excavation of the tower
foundation.
CZMC found the proposed action to be consistent with the policies in the Local Waterfront
Revitalization Program.
4. Old Business
No Old Business to discuss.
5. New Business
No New Business to discuss.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
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