A redesigned AT&T cell tower near the Point Reyes Lighthouse got county approval last month after a back-and-forth over the use of a fake pine tree design. 

At an April 21 hearing, the Marin County Deputy Zoning Administrator authorized a 60-foot steel pole to replace a similarly tall wooden radio tower on a ridge above Sir Francis Drake Boulevard just west of the fork with Chimney Rock Road. The decision reversed a staff recommendation…