Agenda - Council - 04/24/2001 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I of the building. Staff is recommending that the fence be constructed out of a wood material or materials that closely match the exterior wall finishes on the building. The is proposing to utilize an existing driveway to access the equipment building. There personnel stationed at the site on a permanent basis. She advised that the discussed this application at a recent work session and would like to hire detenuine how many more users can go onto this tower and explore constructing an equipment building to accommodate all possible future process of finding a consultant io conduct that study. She advised that informed of this and the City's willingness to consider a such time that a permanent building is construCted. The City proposed lease agreement from Verizon Wireless. 'Verizon lease agreement with the City of Ramsey for water tower $12,732 annually. City staff recommends approval landscape plan; the fence being constructed out of that surrounding properties, and the City entering 'into to building gth !sing to enter into a space in the amount of upon an 00% screening from Citizen Input Chairperson Nixt questioned the ability to create or reasonableness screening. ,I I :1 I Jim Nelson, of Buell Consulting working with City staff on for the City to build their own some he has been' about the potential Chairperson Nixt asked Mr. Nelson to building. Mr. Nelson stated~thei~eqEi, pwent building to be a climate controlled structure to house the radio}!e0ntrolled;eq.Uipment. The are maintained on a monthly basis to assure everything is operatmg!~correctly. He security would be an issue for Verizon Commu/iicafions and they with placing their equipment into an open area .tha¢??~iccessible the potential of the City constructing the equipment but it is his past experience that would be an unusual is unsure what the issues are since he was not in ~;;-~':~attendance at the d'3hhCil meeting but believes they are probably related to aesthetic. Chairper§0n"Nixt stated that ~iSUtd also be his assumption given this location in a predominantly residential area::~ Commumty Development Assistant Wald stated the C~ty Council d~d not want four d~fferent .... ~"~:' ~., ...... bmldmgs at the'..base of this property, due to aesthetics, and s~nce ~t is surrounded by residential. "'%}TChairperso~/'.Ni'xt asked if these antennas will also provide paging so another user may not be '~'fe~ible,dfi¢;t~) conflicting signals. ~!'7'N~ison stated he is not an engineer but it is his understanding that Verizon's first thought w~S to locate on the top of the tower tank. However, after revising their coverage area, it was Planning Commission/April 3, 2001 Page 3 of 18 -23-