| Draft Environmental Impact Statement Shorts School Road Am Antenna Structures 71 is located near the flood control dike and existing tall trees, thus taking advantage of the screening properties of those existing terrain features. 3.2.4 Impacts Impacts discussed in this section relate to land use/shoreline impacts. Aesthetic visual impacts of the proposed action are discussed in a separate section, �Aesthetics, Light and Glare,� beginning on Section 3.1.1.7 Assessing Visual Impacts. The described impacts are applicable to both the Preferred Alternative and Alternative 2. There would be an approximate 40% reduction in the amount of non-significant impacts from the Preferred Alternative to Alternative 2. Land Use Policies & Regulations Both the Preferred Alternative and Alternative 2 are allowable uses and as designed are compliant with all applicable County, State and Federal policies and regulations. The structures would be set back from the external property boundaries greater than the structural heights. In compliance with CUP criteria of SCC 30.42C the applicant�s proposal incorporates the following features: all antennas and other structures are well set back from the property lines (for example, the tallest antenna is set back approximately 900 feet from the road and 625 feet from the nearest neighbor.). Each antenna is approximately 200 feet or more from any property boundary. The equipment shelter on the north end of the property conforms to Snohomish County Code for setbacks. Site/Existing Land Use Disturbance Temporary impacts to the site may occur from disturbance from construction activities which include site prep, foundations for the antennas, assembly of the equipment and antennas, the parking access area and the trenching/burial of the feed lines and grounding system. Pile supported foundations will be used for the antenna facilities. The equipment platform, shelter and box and antennas are to be pre-fabricated off site and will only be assembled on site. There may be some temporary, minimal amount of noise and compaction of ground from machinery needed to accomplish this goal (i.e. backhoe, crane). The footprints for the proposed eight antennas, and associated uses (access, parking & service) will consume approximately 4,500 square feet which is less than 1% of the total area of the site. Therefore, approximately 4,500 square feet of land would be removed from agricultural production. The small impervious surface area (+/- 2,500 square feet) may also create an additional impact of increased water run-off on the site. A component of the project is the necessity to provide feed lines from the service yard to the antennas and a grounding system around each of the antennas. There will also be some temporary disturbance of the site during trenching/burial of feed lines and the grounding system which is necessary for AM signal transmission. The feed line will require a 4-foot deep trench to be dug from the service area to each of the antennas. The grounding system will require +/- 120, 18-inch deep trenches to be dug radiating out from the center of each antenna approximately 200 feet. These actions may cause compaction from machinery used to dig, set and bury the |