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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Director of the Kern County Planning and Natural Resources Department, who has been designated the Hearing Officer, will, on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., in the Con ference Room, Kern County Planning and Natural Resources Department, 2700 “M” Street, Suite 100, Bakersfield, CA, consider the following: 1. A Precise Development Plan to allow the construction of a 150-foot cellular communications tower (Section 19.36.020.G) within a 2,500-square-foot lease area on 32.62-acre parcel in an M-1 PD FPS (Light Industrial - Precise Development Combining - Floodplain Secondary Combining) Dis trict; South of Webb Avenue and east of Clark Street in the Lake Isabella area (APN: 263-060-11); Environmental Review: Categorically Exempt 15303(c); The Towers, LLC by Complete Wireless Consulting, Inc. (PP27124), applicant; Staff Planner Daisy Gaeta, Planner II, at (661) 862-8607 or by email at DGaeta@kerncounty.com The application(s), environmental document(s), and complete legal description(s) for this request are on file in the office of the Planning and Natural Resources Department and are available for public review. Anyone wishing to give testimony on this request will be heard. If you challenge the action taken on this request in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning and Natural Resources Department at, or prior to, the public hearing. Written comments received by October 20, 2026, in support or opposition of this request will be incorporated into the staff report presented at the hearing. Additional in forma tion may be obtained by calling the Staff planner assigned to the case at above-listed telephone number. CRAIG M . MURPHY, Director Planning and Natural Resources Department 2700 “M” Street, Suite 100 Bakersfield, CA 93301 (PUB SUN 10/14/2026)