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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />MAY ^ 7 2003 <br />ClIYOhOHONO <br />Date: May 22,2003 <br />Item No.I <br />Department Approval:Administrator Approval: <br />Name: Michael P. GafTron <br />Title: Planning Director <br />Agenda Section: <br />Zoning <br />Item Description: #03-2903 - Proposed Amendment to Sections 10.25, 10.27 and 1028 <br />re: Personal Wireless Service Towers and Antennas <br />- Ordinance Review and Adoption <br />List of Exhibits <br />A • Ordinance in Adoption Format <br />B - Planning Commission Memo and Exhibits of 8/16/01 <br />Background The City Council has identified a need to provide additional potential locations for <br />personal wireless service antennas in the City aside from the two municipal water towers. The <br />attached ordinance amendment would allow such antennas on existing or future City emergency <br />warning siren towers as a conditional use within the LR-IC, RR-1A and RR-IB zoning districts <br />(these are the three districts in which the current 4 existing siren towers are located; a potential <br />future siren tower at the Orono golf course would also be in the RR-IB district). <br />Note that the City has been under a moratorium on issuance of permits for siting of wireless <br />telecommunication facilities and structures in all zoning districts since November 13,2001 and <br />the moratorium is scheduled to expire June 10,2003. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation <br />The Planning Commission held a public hearing on this matter on May 19,2003 and on a vote of <br />6-0 recommended approval of the ordinance subject to two specific additional provisions: <br />1.In item 4(j) for each of the three zoning districts, add language that gives Council the <br />discretion to determine whether a support equipment cabinet on the ground at the base of the <br />pole is of the “minimum necessary size”. <br />2.Add language to items 4(j) that requires appropriate vegetative or other screening of such <br />cabinets. <br />Such language has been added per the Planning Commission recommendatioo, <br />\ <br />J