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<br />MO S S & BARNETT <br /> <br />A Professional Associalion <br /> <br />Thomas Paschke <br />City of Roseville <br />January 17,2001 <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />The Cellular Phone System. Users of cellular telephone services include farmers, doctors, <br />contractors and other members of the business community, as well as various areas of the public <br />sector. Fire and police departments and other public safety agencies use cellular telephones <br />extensively, as well. The City of Roseville itself uses the Verizon Wireless cellular phone <br />system. The system allows police and other emergency response agencies to conduct private <br />communication in the field. This can be important from the scene of a crime, serious car accident, <br />fire or other emergency. Immediate, direct communication with other specialized agencies is often <br />made using cellular phones when a relay through a dispatcher would be cumbersome and cause <br />dangerous delays. <br /> <br />Cellular telephones continue to function in areas where telephone wires are down because <br />of ice stonns, floods, high winds or tornadoes, also aiding in emergencies. Each cell also has a <br />back-up power source in the equipment building-either a generator, batteries or both-that operate <br />automatically if outside power fails. This is especially important since cellular telephones are often <br />relied upon when other methods of communication fail during times of emergency. <br /> <br />The cellular mobile phone system operates on a specific set of channels set aside by the <br />Federal Communication Commission (FCC), The filtering of spurious signals is very tightly <br />controlled. Cellular telephones operate within a strictly regulated set of allotted frequencies <br />between 824 and 894 megahertz. Fonnerly these channels were allocated to certain UHF television <br />frequencies, As a result, there is no radio frequency interference caused by these installations. <br /> <br />Search Area Criteria. The area in which cellular coverage is needed largely defines the <br />required antenna height. We have been working for several months to locate an antenna site in <br />this area to solve cellular phone service coverage needs. At the present time, owners of cellular <br />phones are unable to use their phones in portions of Roseville and the surrounding areas. As a <br />result, static as well as lost cOlli'1ections or "dropped calls" are problems for subscribers in this <br />area. The proposed site is designed to solve these very problems. <br /> <br />Long before collocation was required by your ordinance, Verizon Wireless and its <br />predecessors have been providing antenna sites on its poles and towers and using existing <br />structures rather than building additional poles or towers. In addition to collocating with other <br />wireless service providers, we have collocated our antennas on water towers, county sheriff <br />facilities, Mn/DoT facilities, even civil defense sirens. In this case, however, that was just not <br />possible. <br /> <br />Conclusion. I hope this letter will serve to better explain our proposal and to answer <br />some of your questions. If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me at (612) <br />347-0274. We would like to file the necessary applications for a conditional use pennit and <br />