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MEMORANDUM Meeting Location is Roseville City Hall 2660 Civic Center Drive To: Parks and Recreation Commission From: Lonnie Brokke Date: December 28, 2009 Tuesday, January 5, 2009 Re: Notes for Commission Meeting on . Introductions/Public Comment Invited 1 Commissioners and staff will be introduced. Public participation and public comment is encouraged. 2. Approval of Minutes of the December 1, 2009 Meeting Enclosed is a copy of the minutes of December 1, 2009. Please be prepared to approve or amend. Requested Commission Action : Approve/amend minutes of the meeting of December 1, 2009. 3. Clearwire Proposal at Acorn Park This has been a continued item. Following is some history as well as the latest development. History th On your September 19 tour of parks and facilities, you visited Acorn Park to discuss a proposal by Clearwire Communications to install a data antenna that includes a 7x7 ground cabinet to house the electronics. The proposal was to remove and replace one of the hockey rink light poles with a taller pole, i.e. from 35 ft. to 120 ft. and install the data antenna on the top. The hockey rink lights would be reattached at the same height on that same pole with similar dimensions. This proposal appeared to be workable and be relatively unobtrusive for the park. In order to limit the number of poles in any particular area, the Community Development Department planning staff determined that the zoning code suggests a co-location on towers be considered over a single provider pole. This would require a higher and larger pole (150’) and a significant amount more ground space i.e. 24 x 24 and may include a building to accomodate the needs. With this specific proposal, the City is the property owner and has the discretion to support the proposals or not. At your November 2, 2009 meeting you recommended proceeding with the single provider concept, with specific guidelines. You also suggested that a co-location scenario would be a new and different discussion with greater impacts to the park and something that you were uncomfortable with being in the park, especially how active Acorn Park is and that the City is in the middle of updating the Park and Recreation System Master Plan. Latest City Staff has determined to move forward with planning for the co-location tower in Acorn Park. With that in mind we have walked the park to determine a least interfering site. Attached are three diagrams depicting ground space usage at Acorn Park using three different scenarios: Scenario A - Clearwire only provider Scenario B - Three Providers - (similar to Clearwire) Scenario C - Clearwire with a large provider like Verizon