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• • • Qwest Rezone January 10, 2001 page 2 In other words, the City must allow wireless providers to provide service. If there is a gap in their coverage, the City must provide sites for filling the gap. The City cannot allow one company to provide service while preventing a competitor from doing so. Zoning: City Ordinance No. 01 -98 includes the requirements for towers in the City. That same ordinance also made numerous amendments to the zoning ordinance to describe which zoning districts will allow new towers, which allow antennas on existing structures. New towers are allowed only in PSP and GI districts. Other districts allow antennas on existing structures such as buildings and water towers, but do not allow new towers. Also, there are some differences between requirements for wireless service towers and towers for radio and television. All new wireless communication towers must be monopoles. In addition, an applicant for a new tower must demonstrate that the location of the new tower is necessary to provide wireless coverage and that there is no existing structure that can accommodate the antenna. The design of new towers must accommodate "co- location," must be able to support several antennas. This require tower for every new antenna. The tower setback from the property lin is possible if it is demonstrated that is, if the tower fails, it will c ft. tall and is located more th h means that the tower ces the need for a new t of the tower. An exception 11 occur in a lesser distance. That t fall over. The proposed tower is 135 both Rondeau Road West and Main St. In the PSP and GI zones, a new er requires an administrative permit. This type of permit was created by Ordinance No. 01 -98. It does not require a public hearing or review and approval by the P & Z or the City Council. (The public hearing tonight is required for the rezoning.) However, the rezoning hearing provides a good venue to discuss the tower application, which is driving the rezoning request. Tower Location and Description: The proposed location is in City Hall Park at the corner of Main St. and Rondeau Road. The tower would be constructed next to the hockey rink and the Public Works buildings. It will be designed to accommodate antennas for two additional wireless providers, for a total of three. The proposed tower will be 135 ft. high. The tower is approximately four feet in diameter at the base and tapers to about two feet at the top. Several equipment cabinets will be installed next to the pole. These cabinets will be about nine feet long and six feet tall.