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19 4.0 BACKGROUND 20 4.1 City of Roseville owns the property at 2660 Civic Center Drive, which has a 2' Comprehensive Plan designation of Institutional (IN) and a zoning classification of Park zz & Open Space (POS). z:3 4.2 This cotvD�1'cotvAL usE reQuest has been prompted by the applicant's desire to erect the 2a tower, convey it to the City, and lease space for their wireless Internet equipment on and 2s at the base of the tower, which makes the City a potential partner in the application in 2o addition to being the landowner. For this reason, the comments of several departments 2� and divisions of City staff have been included in this report. 2� 4.3 The City Council originally reviewed this proposal at its meeting of November 16, 2009; 2� an excerpt of the meeting minutes are included with this staff report as Attachment E. 3o Because Councilmembers were uncertain whether the proposed location for the 3�� telecommunication facility was the best option on the City Hall Campus, the Council 32 tabled the discussion to give the applicant time to work with staff to reevaluate other 33 possible locations on Campus, focusing on the area in and around the Public Works yard. 3a A possible alternative location was identified between the Public Works yard and 3� Woodhill Drive; illustrations of this possible alternative location are included with this 3h staff report in Attachment C, and is further discussed in this report. 3� 5.0 3� 5.1 39 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMMENTS Terrence Heiser, Director of Information Technology (IT), explained that Clearwire provides both fixed (i.e., home) Internet access as well as mobile access. Once their ao system is deployed in the metro area subscribers will be able to take their Internet a� connection with them if they have a notebook computer, and Twin Citians will have a2 another option in addition to Qwest DSL or Comcast Cable Modem for Internet access. a:3 To accomplish this, Clearwire will need hundreds of sites throughout the metropolitan aa area. Current tower owners were contacted first and, to fill in the holes, Clearwire is 45 exploring the development of new towers, making the question less about tit�hether such 4h towers will appear and more about where they will be installed. a� 5.2 The current communication technology being used by Clearwire is being called Wi- 4� Max"; a Wi-Max antenna can cover a radius of .3 to 1.2 miles. Given this coverage it is �� expected that there will be 7- 9 antenna sites in or around Roseville. Clearwire is specific 5o about the elevation, keeping the antennas about 120' from the ground: in Roseville (and s� most suburban communities) this creates a challenge since there are very few 10-story 52 buildings on which to attach antennas. So they need to find free-standing towers. 53 Currently there are 5 free-standing towers in Roseville, three of which are owned by the �� City and the other two owned by AT&T. 55 ss 57 5 £3 59 60 6� 6'L 5.3 Roseville has completed applications to co-locate Clearwire antennas on two of the City's exiting towers: Fairview (Fire Station #2) and Alta Vista (Reservoir Woods). An engineering analysis has indicated that the third tower — on City Hall Campus, next to the Public Works garage — is at its structural capacity and cannot accommodate the proposed equipment. Another tower on Campus, the former UHF/VHF transmitting/receiving tower adjacent to City Hall, is no longer active. This tower was also evaluated but, at only 80 feet in height, it does not meet Clearwire's needs. This is why a new tower is being proposed. A 120-foot-tower would satisfy Clearwire's minimum height requirements, but PF09-031 RCA 011110 Page 2 of 6 � �