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April I 1 °i, 2005 ~=R~CAfV TOW.R Mr. Steve Grittman Planning Department City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Rd. Little Canada, MN 55117 Dear Mr. Grittman, I am submitting this cover letter and supporting documents along with an Application Form for a Conditional Use Pern7it on behalf of Cingular Wireless for the purpose of constructing and operating a monopole wireless communications facility on the property located at 3250 Spruce Street. The address of the property owners, Hillcrest Development, LLLP, is 2424 Kennedy Str. NE Minneapolis, MN 55413 Cingular Wireless (formerly AT&T Wireless) has hired the services of American Tower Corporation (ATC) to assist them in expanding their wireless conmiunications coverage in the metro area. Cingular will be adding antennas to a number of existing American Tower Corporation towers and other existing towers in the metro area. American Tower Corporation, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, is the leading independent owner and operator of wireless communication towers in the United States. ATC's primary business is the leasing of antenna sites on multi-tenant towers to a diverse range of wireless communications industries, including persona] communication services, paging, cellular, as well as radio and television broadcasters. We operate approximately 13,000 towers nationwide. We also provide a full line of services to the wireless communications industry. In this case, we are providing our services on a consulting basis. Here, Cingular Wireless desires to expand their wireless coverage along Interstate 694 in the Rice Street area. Cingular requires their comnumications equipment to be located within a % mile radius of selected Lat/Long coordinates and certain heights above ground level. Deviation from this search ring would leave coverage gaps in their network that would require additional new communication sites. There is only one tower within Cingular's search ring and it is not structurally capable of holding Ciugular's equipment. (See separate letter "Exhausting Co-location possibilities"). Thus, Cingular Wireless is proposing to construct a 150' monopole wireless comnumications tower and place a 12'x 20' equipment shelter inside a fenced compound on the subject parcel. The proposed ]ease site is 40-feet by 20-feet. The tower will be designed to be structurally capable of holding 2 additional sets of antennas, so no new towers will be needed in the area. AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION 11225 90 ~" AVE NORTH lP202, MAPLE GROVE , MN 55369 7631493-0037 FAX 7631425-2954