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j. The Traffic Department reserves the right to co -locate wireless
equipment on the tower.
Please feel free to call me at 221-6750 if you have any questions about
these comments.
incerely,
T oy Jon s
Ci y Planner
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Wireless telecommunication facility shall mean any freestanding
facility, building, pole, tower or structure used to provide only
wireless telecommunication services, and which consists of,
without limitation, antennae, equipment and storage and other
accessory structures used to provide wireless
telecommunication services.
f. You have not shown that reasonable efforts have been undertaken to
comply with the 'stealth technology' requirement. Efforts should be
taken to put an architectural element of some sort onto one of the
exiting buildings in the Pavilion Shopping Center and to locate the
wireless equipment on that element. You have also not shown that the
costs of compliance to the 'stealth technology' requirement clearly
outweigh the potential benefit to the public. You also have not shown
that reasonable steps have been undertaken to minimize any adverse
visual impacts from non-compliance with the 'stealth technology'
standards. According to the above definition of "extent reasonably
feasible" all of these efforts must be undertaken.
g. 80 feet is too high! Section 3.5.1(H)(1)(a)(4) of the Land Use Code
states, "Buildings or structures greater than 40 feet in height shall
be compatible with the scale of the neighborhoods in which they are
situated in terms of relative height, height to mass, length to mass,
and building or structure scale to human scale." The Pavilion Shopping
Center buildings are 21'-6" tall. The tower you propose is almost four
times taller than the adjacent structure. Staff finds that the
proposed height is not compatible with the scale of the neighborhood.
60 feet high would be more compatible. See Current Planning comment
H.13 from the comment letter by Ron Fuchs dated September 12,
2000.
h. Landscaping is required around the ground mounted equipment
enclosure to achieve a total screening effect as required in Section
3.8.13(c)(4) of the Fort Collins Land Use Code.
i. Please see the attached plan depicting where the other proposed pole
is in relation to your proposed pole.
d. The City of Fort Collins is increasingly concerned about the
proliferation of monopoles in and around the city in that these
facilities are unattractive. To this end, in May of 2000, the City
Council approved the inclusion of the following requirement into the
Land Use Code in Section 3.8.13(C)(15):
"Stealth Technology. To the extent reasonably feasible, the
applicant shall employ 'stealth technology' so as to convert the
wireless telecommunication facility into wireless
telecommunication equipment, as the best method by which to
mitigate and/or camouflage visual impacts. Stealth technology
consists of, but is not limited to, the use of grain bins, silos or
elevators, church steeples, water towers, clock towers, bell
towers, false penthouses or other similar 'mimic' structures.
Such 'mimic'structures shall have a contextual relationship to
the adjacent area."
e. For the purpose of understanding the "stealth technology" standard,
the following definitions from Section 5.1.2 of the Land Use Code will
apply:
Extent reasonably feasible shall mean that, under the
circumstances, reasonable efforts have been undertaken to
comply with the regulation, that the costs of compliance clearly
outweigh the potential benefits to the public or would
unreasonably, burden the proposed project, and reasonable
steps have been undertaken to minimize any potential harm or
adverse impacts resulting from noncompliance with the
regulation.
Wireless telecommunication equipment shall mean any
equipment used to provide wireless telecommunication service,
but which is not affixed to or contained within a wireless
telecommunication service facility, but is instead affixed to or
mounted on an existing building or structure that is used for
some other purpose.
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Commu � `y Planning and Environmental
Current Planning
Peter Hoopes
Nextel Communication
4643 South Ulster Street
Denver, CO 80237
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Staff has reviewed your proposal for the Pavilion Shopping Center Wireless
Telecommunication Facility at 4366 S. College, and we offer the following
comments:
a. We currently have two applications for new wireless
telecommunication monopoles to be installed along the south side of
the Pavilion Shopping Center. There is an application by Verizon
Wireless to locate a monopole roughly 500 feet north of your
proposed monopole location.
b. Section 3.8.13(B) of our Land Use Code specifies the following: "No
wireless telecommunication facility or equipment owner or lessee or
employee thereof shall act to exclude or attempt to exclude any other
wireless telecommunication provider from using the same building,
structure or location. Wireless telecommunication facility owners or
lessees or employees thereof shall cooperate in good faith to
achieve co -location of wireless telecommunication facilities and
equipment with other wireless telecommunication providers."
c. There has been no cooperation in good faith between your company
and Verizon to achieve co -location. Neither your project or the
Verizon project can go forward until you work together and come up
with one pole that can serve the antennas from both companies.
Please Ralph Walker the site acquisition consultant to Verizon at
(303) 680-6600 to coordinate the co -location. Either your antennas
needs to co -locate on their pole, or their antennas need to co -locate
on yours. We can not allow both poles.
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