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City's emergency warning sirens. A map is attached showing these sites. <br />-Stealth antennas are requited if the technology is available <br />- The lease schedule should be amended to provide for lower lease rates for lower towers and antennas. <br />Planning Commission Recommendations <br />The Planning Commission will be discussing the information in this memo at its April 2 work session. <br />A representative(s) of the Planning Commission will attend the April 3 Council work session to share <br />the recommendations of the Planning Commission. <br />Staff Recommendation <br />Based on the Council’s direction, and on advice from the City Attorney and the City ’s <br />telecommunications consultant, the following is stall's recommendation regarding the key elements of <br />an amended telecommunications tower/antenna ordinance. <br />- The height of telecommunications towers in residential districts should be limited to a maximum of <br />75 feet. <br />- The height of a tower can be no higher than the minimum height required to address the gap in <br />coverage <br />- The sites available for telecommunications antennas are expanded to include the existing sites of the <br />City ’s emergency warning sirens, and an additional site located on the City ’s GolfCourse property, that <br />would serve as both an emergency warning siren site and a telecommunications antenna site. The Golf <br />Course site was added to fill a gap in the cast central portion of the City. A map is attached showing <br />these sites. <br />The antennas must be located on the existing emergency warning sirens, unless the height of the <br />existing pole, or the capacity of the existing pole to support the antcnna(s) is inadequate to minimally <br />meet the needs of the carrier. In this case, the carrier may be allowed to install a replacement tower that <br />will accommodate both the emergency warning siren and the telecommunications antcnna(s). (The <br />City ’s telecommunications consultant has advised that it is unlikely the e.xisting wooden poles on which <br />the emergency warning sirens are located would be able to support both the sirens and the <br />telecommunications antennas. The existing poles would likely be replaced with a monopole that could <br />support both the sirens and the antennas. <br />- The setback of a tower from a property line must, at minimum, be equal to the height of the tow er, <br />except where an existing emergency warning siren is located on a site that docs not enable this setback <br />to be provided. <br />- A carrier must demonstrate through an engineering analysis that there is a gap in coverage.