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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 11, 2010 Page 14 completion of the Park Master Plan process and uncertainty of future tasking of the park. Mr. Trudgeon further noted that the Planning Commission, having held a public hearing on the matter at their January 6, 2010 meeting, had recommended to the City Council to deny the request on a vote of 4/1. Mr. Trudgeon provided, as a bench handout, a copy of the draft meeting minutes of the January 6, 2010 Planning Commission. Mr. Trudgeon advised that, after review of the Conditional Use application, and based on current zoning restrictions and code applications, City staff was of gen- eral consensus in supporting the proposed location and recommending to the City. Council their approval of the application; as detailed in Sections 5 - 6 and the findings outlined in Section 7 of the RCA. Mr. Trudgeon further advised that, other than a limited commercial strip on Rice Street, there were no other potential locations to provide the signal required by the wireless equipment and fill the coverage gap in that area without significantly impacting residential properties. While recognizing the complexity of the issue, Mr. Trudgeon advised that it was staff s consensus that locating the tower in this 40-acre, city-owned park would boost the community's technology infrastructure, apreference expressed both in the Imagine Roseville 2025 community visioning process and in the Comprehen- sive Plan guidelines. Discussion among Councilmembers and staff included the original requested lo- cation adjacent to the hockey rink and the inability of that proposal to support multi-users in the future rather than constructing additional towers. Mr. Heiser, at the request of Councilmember Roe as to the availability of alternate locations and final determination on this as the preferred location, addressed the resulting proposed location of the tower, based on a walkthrough of the park by him and Parks and Recreation Director Lonnie Brokke, with this location chosen as the least disruptive to park activities, but yet supporting the space and technical needs of Clearwire. Mr. Heiser noted that this park is used extensively for Frisbee golf, and whenever other locations were considered that may prove less visible, they conflicted with the Frisbee golf course. Mr. Heiser reviewed other coverage areas outside the park; however, he noted on a displayed diagram, that those sites were outside the coverage area. Mr. Heiser noted that other options were in smaller neighborhood playgrounds and in residential areas that would be even less desirable. Mr. Heiser advised that the City itself significantly depended on wireless Internet technology for its squad cars for mobile display terminals and data cards, and that this area was known as a "dead area" with squads losing CAD in proximity of McCarrons. Mr. Heiser noted that the squads retained radio communications, but the RF networks were unavailable in that area for all providers. Mr. Heiser opined that the perspective of the height of the tower it was not usually noticed on the horizon from a distance, but that staff's rationale for the park location was to