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central Roseville. No sewer or water service is necessary. Screening of the security fencing (up to 8 feet high and topped with barbed wire) by landscape plantings will be required to reduce at grade visibility of the equipment. 3.6 A prefabricated set of equipment panels will be needed near the base of the tower. They will be connected to the tower by one cable to each antenna. 3.7 The towers are not required to be lighted. Electric and phone wires to the site will be buried. Security lighting on the site must be downcast on the equipment areas only. 3.8 It is possible that the city may place additional emergency services whip antenna for fire, police, and public works on the same tower. Over the long term, the city may wish to own the tower. 4.0 Staff Summary and Recommendation: 4.1 The staff has reviewed the information in the application and finds it to be consistent with the intent of public/semi public uses on city owned or controlled sites. No safety hazard has been identified. The use will be screened from view by mature trees and topography. The use could reduce the need for other such towers by allowing for up to nine antenna on one tower. The tower can also enhance public emergency communications systems. Equipment areas at grade will be screened with plantings and wires into the site will be buried. Building permits, including engineering calculations for structural stability will be required. 4.2 Staff recommends approval of the conditional use permit to allow for the construction of one permanent cellular telephone tower on property commonly known as the Water Authority site. 4.3 As part of the City Council conditional use permit resolution, the staff recommends that a series of operational conditions be included in the permit. (See attachment "A".) ~ Planning Commission Recommendation After the March 12,1997 Planning Commission public hearing, the Commission recommended approval of one cellular tower placed on the west side of the Water 3