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LAW OFFICES <br /> <br />CLAYTON L. LgrEVERE <br /> <br />HERBERT P: LEFLER <br />J, DENNIS O'BRIEN <br /> <br />JOHN B, DEAN <br />GLENN E. PURDUE <br /> <br />LEFEVERE, LEFLER, KENNEDY, O'BRIEN & DRaWZ <br /> <br /> I100 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDIN(:~ <br /> BROOKLYN CENTER OFFICE <br /> MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402 BROOKLYN LAW CENTER <br /> TELEPHONE (61~) ~33-0543 ~637 BROOKLYN BOULEVARD <br /> BROOKLYN CENTER~ ~INNESOTA 554E~ <br /> (612) ~36- B037 <br /> <br />RICHARD J. $CHIEFFER <br /> <br />THOMAS O. CREIOHTON <br /> <br />Mr. John <br />Chairman, <br /> Communications Board <br />500 Rice Street <br />St. Paul, MN 55103 <br /> <br />September 3, 1980 .~ <br /> <br />Dear Chairman Stone: <br /> <br />The Anoka/Champlin/Ramsey Cable Communication Commission <br />(hereinafter the Commission) has directed me to communicate with <br />you and the State Cable Communications Board regarding the expan- <br />sion of the Anoka/Champlin/ Ramsey cable service territory which <br />is proposed by the City of Andover, Minnesota. At its first <br />organizational meeting of August 27, 1980, the Commission adopted <br />a formal resolution objecting to the proposed expansion of its <br />cable service territory. <br /> <br /> The cities of Anoka, Champlin, and Ramsey have long prided <br />themselves on their efforts towards municipal cooperation. They <br />approach the Andover proposed expansion with the same spirit of <br />cooperation. However,' it is the Commission's position that the <br />Andover proposal as ih is currently drafted to include as the <br />initial service area the entire City of Andover is unreasonable <br />and inconsistent with the original proposal from the Harmon <br />Company which established the original cable service territory of <br />Anoka, Champlin, and Ramsey. The Andover proposal, including the <br />entire municipality of Andover, would foist upon the current <br />cable service territory an area in which the population density <br />per cable mile would be considerably below the density of the <br />initial service area of the existing cable service territory. As <br />a result, a burden would be placed upon the potential initial <br />subscribers of the existing cable service territory which is <br />unacceptable to the Commission. <br /> <br /> Although not as extreme as Andover's population sparsity, <br />the City of Ramsey also includes density areas which are not <br />initially economically feasible. The original cable service <br /> <br /> <br />