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EN ILLS <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE : November 3 0, 2009 <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />FROM: Meagan Beekman, City Planner <br />SUBJECT: Planning Case #: 09-020 <br />Clearwire Wireless LLC; Steve Trueman <br />Conditional Use Permit <br />2 Pine Tree Drive <br />Back�round <br />The applicants have submitted an application (Attachment C) requesting a Conditional Use <br />Permit (CUP) to install communications antennas and related equipment on the existing Country <br />Insurance building at 2 Pine Tree Drive. The antennas would be located in the center of the <br />building, on top of the penthouse roof structure, and would be at a height of 73 feet. The related <br />equipment would be located on the main roof structure, to the southeast of the penthouse <br />structure. The existing building, measured from the penthouse, is 60 feet in height and the <br />proposed equipment would extend 13 feet above this elevation. Please see Attachment C for an <br />aerial of the site. Clearwire Wireless LLC would lease the required space from Country <br />Insurance. <br />The applicant has submitted an application, engineer letter, site plan, elevations, and site survey <br />explaining their proposal and addressing the location choice for the antennas (Attachments C). <br />Country Insurance operates under an existing CUP; however the perrn,it does not address the use <br />of antennas on the site. The Zoning Code requires a CUP for all antennas to be located in the <br />City. The proposed antennas would be accessory to the principal commercial use on the <br />prop erty. <br />City ofArden Hills <br />City Councal Meeting for November 30, 2009 <br />IlMetro-inet.uslardenhillslPlannangiPlannang Cases12009109-020 Clear�wire CUP - 2 Pine Tree Drive (PCApproved)I11-30-09 - Regular <br />Meeting - Memo - Clearwire CUP.doc <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />