HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.28.24 Supplemental app materials exhibits HH and IIEXHIBIT HH
Network Engineering Group
225 Jordan Road
Troy, New York 12180
N e t w o r k E n g i n e e r i n g - U P N Y
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October 28, 2022
Hon. Members of the Planning Board
Town of Ithaca
215 North Tioga Street
Ithaca, NY, 14850
RE: With respect to Town Code and the stated limitations on analysis there is arguably no
finding of “significant gaps” based only on the RF propagation plots for existing low-band
RF coverage.
Honorable Members of the Town of Ithaca Planning Board:
Verizon RF engineering team reviewed Mr. Bill Johnson’s letter dated 10/21/2024, and
would like to provide further explanation on comment made by Mr. Johnson “with respect to
Town Code and the stated limitations on analysis there is arguably no finding of “significant
gaps” based only on the RF propagation plots for existing low-band RF coverage”.
Exhibit H slide 17 displays existing low band coverage of Verizon Wireless, note that the
coverage shown on slide 17 is outdoor coverage and for an RF signal to reach out to an in-
building (or in-vehicle) user, it must penetrate through different structures (or vehicle) which
introduces additional 10-20dB losses. As stated on Slide 17, the large orange coverage areas
near the proposed site are subject to variable coverage conditions including fading and
seasonality gaps, which means if outdoor coverage is orange (refer Exhibit H, Slide 12), indoor
coverage (RSRP) will be 10 to 20dB below -105dBm, which is a significant coverage gap. Below
is zoomed image from Slide 17 that displays a number of dwellings (located in targeted service
improvement area) are in orange coverage areas and are suspected to have either no or
unusable indoor coverage.
In view of the aforementioned details, Verizon Wireless’ RF team re-emphasizes that the
“Sunny View” project area has significant coverage gaps in adequate LTE service in both
high and low frequency bands and the Sunny View site with proposed ACL will resolve these
substantial and significant gaps in coverage.
Thank you for your consideration.
Very truly yours,
Wasif Sharif
Wasif Sharif
Radio Frequency (RF) Design
Engineer
EXHIBIT II
Verizon Wireless
Communications Facility
Engineering Necessity Case –“Sunny View”
Prepared by: Wasif Sharif, RF Engineer, Verizon Wireless
Project: The project is the installation and operation of a new tower co-located wireless
telecommunications site in the Town of Ithaca (the “Project Facility”).
Town Boundary
Town/City Border
Existing ITHACA HD Site
Search Area
Project Location
Route 79
Existing DANBY Site
Existing BROOKTONDALE
Site
Oct 24th, 2024
Alternative Sites
2
The following slides display the individual footprint of Sunny View site from proposed and other alternative
site locations and it can be seen that alternative locations fail to provide the adequate coverage that is
needed to resolve the significant coverage gap in targeted service improvement area.
Candidate Name Lat (decimal
NAD83)
Long (Decimal
Nad83)
GE
(ft)
ACL
(raw land, WT, collo)
A Six Mile Creek Vineyard 42.415761 -76.453288 847 Raw Land
B Gary Foote #1 42.417643 -76.448339 1035 Raw Land
C Gary Foote #2 42.415457 -76.447856 957 Raw Land
D Gary Foote #3 42.416553 -76.446923 1026 Raw Land
E Suzanne Roberts 42.412417 -76.450629 823 Raw Land
Sunny View Low band footprint –Suzanne Roberts
3
4
Sunny View Low band footprint –Six Mile Creek Vineyard
5
Sunny View Low band footprint –Gary Foote #1
6
Sunny View Low band footprint –Gary Foote #2
7
Sunny View Low band footprint –Gary Foote #3