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6.0PRC ARKS AND ECREATIONOMMENTS 6.1Aside from suggesting the presently-proposed location as being most out-of-the-way with respect to park users, Parks and RecreationDirector,Lonnie Brokke,had previously indicated that the Parks and RecreationDepartment is generally supportive ofa tower in the proposed Acorn Parklocation as long as: a.the initial tower is limited to 125feet in height; b.the colorof the tower structureblendsintothepark setting; and c.the initial ground-mounted equipment be limited to a 7-foot-by-7-foot area in the proposed location. Roseville’s Parks and Recreation Commission is expected to review the revised 6.2 proposal for the telecommunication facilityduring its meeting of January 4, 2010. Planning Division staff will provide a verbal update of the Parks and Recreation th Commission’s recommendation during the January 6public hearing for this item. 7.0CDC OMMUNITY EVELOPMENTOMMENTS 7.1Roseville’s zoning ordinancespertaining to telecommunication towers are as follows: a.Section 1013.10A4(Commercial Towers –Non-City Sites) of the City Code allows privately-owned telecommunication towers as on private property CONDITIONAL USES zoned for business or industrial uses; privately-owned towers are prohibited in all other zoning districts. Clearwire’s technological needs have led them to identify the area in or around the western end of Acorn Park as being a critical node ina wireless network, but there are no business or industrial districts in that area.The business- zoned properties along Rice Street are too far east to be considered as suitable alternatives to the proposed Acorn Park location. b.Section 1013.10A1 (City-Owned Towers) allows telecommunication towers that are owned by the City as permitted uses in business and industrial districts or as in all other zoning districts. This provision allows a service CONDITIONAL USES providerlike Clearwire to erect a tower, convey ownershipof the towerto Roseville, and lease the tower and ground space required for their telecommunication equipment within Acorn Parkas a in thePOS zoning district. CONDITIONAL USE c.Section 1013.10A3 (Co-location on City Sites) further requires that new telecommunication equipment be mounted on existing towers when it is “technically feasible” to mount the new equipment among or around existing equipment. All of the above Code regulations work together to supporta telecommunication tower as a in a City park, butto require that such a tower be owned by the City CONDITIONAL USE andaccommodate multiple users when it’s possible to do so. Although the initial tower is only to be 125 feet tall (in effect a single-user facility), Planning Division staff has determined that there is no technical barrier to increasing the height in the future to accommodate additionaltelecommunication service providers and, therefore, supports the current proposal as being consistent with the requirements of the zoning ordinances. 7.2RCUC EVIEW OF ONDITIONAL SERITERIA Section 1014.01(Conditional Uses) of the City Code requires the Planning Commission PF09-032_RPCA_010610 Page 3of 6