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• � 5.5 Planning Division staff believes that the proposed cypress screening would be sufficient if one additional tree is added to the southern end of the line or if the line were shifted slightly southward to ensure adequate screening from the residential properties to the southwest as shown in Attachment D. Staff would also recommend requiring some landscape screening on the Rice Street side of the proposed installation; the type and location of such screening will depend in part on the final location of the facility, which will not be precisely determined until the completion of the wetland delineation. 5.6 Section 1014A1 (Conditional Uses) requires the Planning Commission and City Council to consider the following criteria when reviewing a cotvDlTiotvAL usE application: • Impact on traffic; • Impact on parks, streets, and other public facilities; • Compatibility of the site plan, internal traffic circulation, landscaping, and structures with contiguous properties; • Impact of the use on the market value of contiguous properties; • Impact on the general public health, safety, and welfare; and • Compatibility with the City's Comprehensive Plan. a. Impact on traffic: The Planning Division has determined that an increase in traffic volume due to the installation of the proposed tower will not be an issue given that such a facility is not the origin or destination of vehicle trips beyond the initial construction and occasional maintenance. b. Impact on parks, streets and other public facilities: The Planning Division has determined that the only potential impact of a telecommunications tower on the City's parks, streets, and/or other facilities would be aesthetic. While nothing can be feasibly done to mask the tower itself, some screening around the base and the ground equipment is both proposed and required. c. Compatibility ... with contiguous properties: The proposed tower would not change the circulation on the property. While another 125-foot tower on the office property might not be aesthetically compatible with the surrounding residential, business, and park uses, Planning Division staff believes that the proposed use (i.e., the provision of wireless Internet service itsel fl could be welcomed as a residential, commercial, and recreational amenity. d. Impact of the use on the market value of conNguous properties: Planning Division staff is unaware of existing market analyses indicating that telecommunications towers like the one currently proposed have a negative impact on the value of nearby properties. While the presence of a nearby monopole structure may make property owners feel differently about their own properties, the additional or improved wireless service(s) provided from the tower may well offset the aesthetic impact in the minds of future, prospective buyers. PF 10-010 RPCA 040710 Page 3 of 5