4E, Planning Case 09-009 - Bethel Drive

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.- ~"HlEES MEMORANDUM DATE: June 29, 2009 TO: Mayor & City Council FROM: Meagan Beekman, City Planner SUBJECT: Planning Case #: 09-009 Conditional Use Permit Amendment AT&T (Ken Nielsen) 3900 Bethel Drive Request Approve Planning Case 09-009 for a Conditional Use Permit Amendment at 3900 Bethel Drive Based on the Findings of Fact and the Submitted Plans as Amended by the Five Conditions in the June 29, 2009, Memo to the City Council. Back2round The applicants have requested a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for AT&T to install a cellular tower and adjacent equipment shed on the Bethel University campus at 3900 Bethel Drive. The tower and equipment shed would be located on the southeast side of the parking lot immediately adjacent to the recently added East Lot parking area (approved through Planning Case 07-022), approximately 170 feet from the eastern property line abutting Trunk Highway 51. Please see Attachment D for an aerial of the site. AT&T is seeking to lease a tract measuring 20 feet by 35 feet (700 square feet) that would contain the cellular tower and equipment shed. The cellular tower would be designed as a simple pole that would be 75 feet tall with an eight foot tall wooden fence encircling the base, both painted dark brown. Although the Zoning Code typically limits fences to a maximum height of six feet, the needed security and fairly isolated location enables an exception to this regulation. Canister stealth skin would be utilized along the highest 15 feet of the tower to conceal the antennas inside (the number of antennas on this tower has not been specified). Adjacent to the south would be a 16 by ten foot (160 square foot) equipment shed measuring ten feet in height. Metro-inet\ardenhi/ls \Admin \CouncillAgendas & Packet Information 12009\06-29-09 - Regular Meeting - Planning Case 09-009 Page 1 of 4