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Planning Commission –Comprehensive Plan Update <br />Minutes –Wednesday, January 25, 2017 <br /> <br />Page 17 <br />too vague of a term to define. Ms. Perdufurther noted the resiliency portion in <br />617 <br />this infrastructure category and as a separate chapter suggested for the 2040 plan <br />618 <br />update moving forward, and including a resiliency concept there. <br />619 <br />Ms. Perduopined those were good suggestions to lead into the future, particularly <br />620 <br />regarding the utility chapter. <br />621 <br />Technology <br />622 <br />Ms. Perdustated that the main comment she observed was rewording of <br />623 <br />public/private partnerships so it was clearly not the city’s responsibility to <br />624 <br />provide, but a partnership with other entities. <br />625 <br />Member Murphy stated that if the intent was for development of long-term <br />626 <br />technology infrastructure, if for city staff or for the city as a whole, he stated first <br />627 <br />he would consider it to conduct Roseville operations; and if applying to the whole <br />628 <br />city if applicable. <br />629 <br />While unsure how it was originally intended, Mr. Lloyd suggested that some <br />630 <br />years back there were a number of new installations for wireless and cellular <br />631 <br />infrastructure, and the city’s Information Technology, Inspections, and Police <br />632 <br />staff were jointly interested in that network and advocating for its completion. Mr. <br />633 <br />Lloyd noted that this provided for wireless access to office files for them in when <br />634 <br />out in the field; and suggested that may have led to the city services side versus <br />635 <br />that of the broader community. <br />636 <br />Specific to the broader community, Mr. Paschke noted thatthe city controlled <br />637 <br />many of the rights-of-way where that infrastructure was located (e.g. fiber optic <br />638 <br />systems) that may be a public/private partnership; but still needed a plan to <br />639 <br />determine where it made sense to initially install them. Mr. Paschke opinedit was <br />640 <br />more holistic for the city to continue to move down that road as technology <br />641 <br />continued to evolve. Mr. Paschke noted that most towers were owned by the city <br />642 <br />or were on city-owned property; and noted the need to tie that all in when <br />643 <br />considering the benefit to the broader community. <br />644 <br />Chair Boguszewski stated that had been how he interpreted this category, using <br />645 <br />the City of Minneapolis and their maintenance of the public wi-fi system as an <br />646 <br />example, which he considered a good thing. Since this had now become a basic <br />647 <br />expectation of life, Chair Boguszewski opined that he saw nothing wrong with <br />648 <br />retaining it as a goal. <br />649 <br />Mr. Paschke noted that the city held franchise agreements with Comcast, with all <br />650 <br />that also tied to this goal and negotiations handled by the city on behalf of the <br />651 <br />community. <br />652 <br />Member Bull noted that future technology could include drones reading water <br />653 <br />meters; garbage cans connected to wi-fi to know when they should be emptied, <br />654 <br />etc. <br />655 <br /> <br />