8A, PC 09-009, Conditional Use Permit Amendment at 3900 Bethel Drive

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I at&t 1. Arden Hills Water Tower on Cummings Park Drive: (located 1 mile North of Bethel University) Site Acquisition initially brought this site to our attention simply to confirm that AT&T already has a wireless facility on this Arden Hills Water Tower. AT&T does in fact operate a wireless facility on this water Tower. This AT&T facility currently experiences call capacity overloading and does not provide adequate coverage to Bethel University and the area to the south of Bethel. The proposed facility at Bethel University will significantly help to relieve the call capacity issues that are currently being experienced at the AT&T Cummings Park Drive Water Tower facility. This existing facility also demonstrates that AT&T is willing to co-locate on existing structures when their location allows them to substantially satisfy the engineering design requirements. 2. Existing 250' Lattice tower in the northeast corner of Hwy 51 & I-694: This structure is does not meet AT&T's engineering requirements as it is located too far north of Bethel University and too close to the existing AT&T site on the Arden Hills/Cummings Park Drive Water Tower. An AT&T facility at this location would provide material undesirable interference to the existing Cummings Park Drive site and would not provide acceptable and reliable in-building coverage to Bethel University. 3. Arden Hills Water Tower located at 1260 Red Fox Road: This site would likely provide reliable outdoor coverage to most of the Bethel campus and surrounding area but would not provide acceptable in-building coverage. In particular, the numerous buildings located in northwest portion of the campus and on the west side of the campus would not have sufficient and reliable in-building coverage for voice and data wireless devices. Even though this WT is 0.3 miles from the campus this WT, it sits on a high ground (940 ft AMSL) when compared to the Bethel University campus (880 ft AMSL) so by collocating on the WT signal from the antennas will be shooting over the campus. Please see attachment 1 for more details.