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EN HILL <br />S <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: Apri126, 2010 <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />FROM: Meagan Beekman, City Planner <br />SUBJECT: Planning Case #: 09-023 <br />U.S. Bank (Michael O'Rourke) on behalf of the George J. Reiling Estate <br />Conditional Use Permit (CUP) Amendment and Zoning Code Amendment <br />1296 County Road F <br />Back�round <br />This application was first reviewed by the Planning Commission at the February 3, 2010, <br />meeting. At that time the applicant was requesting a zoning code change that would allow <br />additional antennas on nonconforming communications towers. The Planning Commission <br />made a recommendation of approval to the City Council. At their February 22, 2010, meeting <br />the City Council voted to table the application and expressed concerns over the number of <br />antennas that would be permitted on the tower and the proposed amendment to the zoning code. <br />At their March 15 work session the City Council directed Staff to work with the applicant on a <br />CUP Amendment that would limit the number of antennas on the tower to the number of <br />antennas currently in operation and alter the zoning code amendment language to make existing <br />towers in the City conforming conditional uses. The initial application requested that the Zoning <br />Code be amended to allow additional antennas to be placed on nonconforming towers; however, <br />the towers themselves would have remained nonconforming. Because the zoning language that <br />is now proposed is different that the language presented to the Planning Commission at the <br />public hearing, the City Attorney recommended that the application go back to the Planning <br />Commission for a public hearing and review. <br />Verizon replaced three of their antennas with new ones in the fall of 2009. As part of the work <br />done on the tower at that time they also removed six of the large dish antennas; however, it had <br />been Staff s understanding that there were eight to nine additional antennas that were not in use. <br />Previously Staff had been told that only 21 of the 3 0 remaining antennas located on the tower <br />were being used and that the remaining antennas had been abandoned. <br />City of A�den Hills <br />City Council Meeting fo� April 26, 2010 <br />C: IDOCUME�IIMEAGAN I.BEEILOCALS�I ITempIELFl5104-26-10 - Regular Meeting - PC 09-023 - Memo.doc <br />Page 1 of 6 <br />