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the City Council voted to table the application and expressed concerns over the number of antennas that would be permitted on the tower and the proposed amendment to the zoning code. At their March 15 work session the City Council directed Staff to work with the applicant on a CUP Amendment that would limit the number of antennas on the tower to the number of antennas currently in operation and alter the zoning code amendment language slightly. Because the zoning language that is now proposed is different that the language presented to the Planning Commission at the public hearing, the City Attorney recommended that the application go back to the Planning Commission for a public hearing and review. Verizon replaced three of their antennas with new ones in the fall of 2009. As part of the work done on the tower at that time they also removed six of the large dish antennas; however, it had been Staff s understanding that there remained eight to nine additional antennas that were not in use. Previously Staff had been told that only 21 of the 30 remaining antennas located on the tower were being used and that the remaining antennas had been abandoned. Since the March 15 City Council work session Staff has had discussions with the property owner, the service providers that are using the tower, and Ulteig Engineering who conducted the structural analysis of the tower for the City. Through these discussions Staff has been able to clarify the number of antennas on the tower and how many of these are currently operational. According to Ulteig Engineering there are currently 30 antennas on the tower. Through discussions with the service providers who are on the tower Staff learned that all of the antennas are currently being used; three antennas are owned and managed by American Messaging, 15 antennas belong to Verizon Wireless, and eleven of the antennas are owned by Nextera. The final antenna that is located on the tower is a relay antenna that is used as an intermediary to remotely gather data about the other antennas that are on the tower. I. Overview of Request: U.S. Bank, on behalf of the George J. Reiling Estate, has submitted an application for a Zoning Code Amendment as it relates to the existing 240 foot communications tower and associated antennas located at 1296 County Road F, hereafter referred to as the Reiling Tower. The original CUP for the Reiling Tower was approved in 1972 (Attachment B). The CUP allowed for the construction of a communications tower and seven microwave dish antennas on the parcel located at 1296 County Road F. Although the approved dish antennas could be replaced with other equipment in the same location, the original CUP did not include provisions for adding antennas or relocating antennas at different heights on the tower. Over the course of the next several decades, antennas were replaced, removed, and relocated on the Reiling Tower. There is not a consistent record of building or electrical permits for this work, and the original CUP was never amended to accommodate the changes made to City of Arden Hills Planning Commission Meeting for April 7, 2010 IlMetro-inet.uslardenhillslPlanninglPlanning Cases 12009 M-023 Refiling Tower Zoning and CUP Amendment (CC Tabled)W4-07-10 -PC Report - Refiling Tower CUP Amendment.doc Page 2 of 10