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EN HILL <br />S <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: April 26, 2010 <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />FRUM: Meagan Beekman, City Planner <br />SUBJECT: Planning Case #: 09-019 <br />Clearwire Wireless; Steve Trueman <br />Conditional Use Permit Amendment <br />1296 County Road F <br />Back�round <br />The existing 240 foot communications tower has operated at 1296 County Road F since 1972 <br />when a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) was issued for the construction and operation of the <br />tovver. At that time the tower was used for microwave dishes transmitting television signals <br />throughout the metropolitan area. The approved site plan from planning case 72-024 indicates <br />that seven microwave dish antennas would be located on the tower. The original CUP did not <br />make accommodations for any future reconfiguration or addition of antennas. <br />Since the original approval of the CUP, ownership and management of the tower has changed <br />hands several times. The property is now held in a trust for the Reiling Estate and is currently <br />under a contract to purchase once again. Over the course of the last several decades it appears <br />that the configuration of antennas located on the tower has changed, and there are new antennas <br />located on the tower. The current owner of the property has submitted an application under <br />Planning Case 09-023 to amend the Zoning Code to make the tower a conforming conditional <br />use on the property and to allow up to 30 antennas on the structure. The tower is currently <br />considered a nonconforming structure and, as such, cannot be expanded by having new antennas <br />placed on it. The approval of Planning Case 09-023 would allow additional antennas to be added <br />to the tower through the CUP process; therefore, this application is contingent on the approval of <br />Planning Case 09-023. <br />If I'lanning Case 09-023 is approved, Clear Wireless proposes to amend the CUP to allow an <br />additional six antennas on the tower to provide wireless internet service to residents and <br />C'ity of A�den Hills <br />City Council Meeting fo� April 26, 2010 <br />C: IDOCUME�IIMEAGAN�I.BEEILOCALS 11TempIELF26104-26-10 - Regular Meeting - PC 09-019 - Memo.doc <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />