Verizon is preparing to remove its Huntington Middle School wireless telecommunications facility, or cell tower, in the near future.
Though a date has not been finalized, Verizon recently examined an existing cell tower located on top of the building which houses SPIN Movement along Huntington Drive.
That cell tower, owned by American Tower Corporation, currently hosts an AT&T cell, which occupies a large part of the facility.
There’s a “50/50 chance” that Verizon will move to this new Huntington Drive location diagonally across from San Marino City Hall, said Planning and Building Director Aldo Cervantes.
American Tower Corporation owns the tower at San Marino High School, too. That tower will be removed, Cervantes noted, at an unknown date in the near term.
Cells for multiple wireless carriers will be relocated to an existing Crown Castle-owned cell tower just outside San Marino city limits behind the Sunrise at San Marino senior living community, which is located next to K.L. Carver Elementary School.
Verizon and American Tower have been searching for alternate sites for the past few months. Removal of the two campus cell sites appears to be in response to pressure from a two-year-long parent-led fight.
San Marino residents recently worked with the South Coast Air Quality Management District – or SCAQMD, the air pollution control agency for Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties – to shut off the back-up diesel generator for the HMS cell tower.
