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Item ##8 • PLANNING COMMISSION MEMO To: Mounds View Planning Commission From: James Ericson, Planning Associate Subject: Commercial Wireless Telecommunications Towers and Antennae Planning Case No. SP-001-96 Date: November 27, 1996 Meeting of December 4, 1996 Issue On August 12, 1996, the City Council approved a six month (180 day) moratorium on the new use, development or construction of wireless telecommunications services (Ordinance No. 587) within the City. This moratorium is set to expire on March 8, 1997. The Planning Commission • held a special session on October 23, 1996 to discuss this topic at which meeting industry representatives were present to give short presentations and to answer questions. Recommendation Staff recommends that the Planning Commission review the attached draft of the Commercial Wireless Telecommunications Towers and Antennae ordinance and make suggestions and or comments as to its content and provisions. In addition, staff has provided a short summary of the ordinance which answers the list of questions developed by staff for your September 12, 1996 meeting (list attached.) Analysis Because there is currently a moratorium in effect, some extra thought needs to be given to the process and time frame by which this ordinance gets approved. If approval of this proposed ordinance (or some later iteration) is desired prior to the expiration of the moratorium, staff will need to draft a separate resolution to repeal the moratorium. If the prevailing thought is to let the moratorium expire on its own accord (March 8, 1997), the proposed ordinance to replace it must be timed so it is approved by the City Council no later than the second Monday in January (January 13, 1997). This will allow sufficient time for the adopted ordinance to be published in the newspaper and the required 30 day period before the ordinance is effective. • •