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LAW OFFICES <br /> <br />LF_FEVERE, LEFLER, KENNEDY, O'BRIEN & DRAWZ <br /> <br /> OROOKLYN CFhlT;-R orr~c£ <br /> NtlNNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402 I~ROOKLYN LAW CENTER <br /> TELEPHONE (~lZ) 333-O543 5537 BROOKLYN BOULEVARD <br /> <br />September 3, 1980 <br /> <br />Mr John R. Stone <br /> .... · ~;~:......~.....~,.~.,. <br />Chairman, Minnesota Cable <br /> Communications Board <br />500 Rice Street <br />St. Paul, MN 55103 <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 Commissioh's position that the <br />Andover proposal as it 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 />