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Telecommunications Towers and Antennas Januar\' 29, 1999 Page 3 . 1' The impact of item 11 is that Personal Wireless Service Antennas and Towers are allowed as a highly-regulated (permitted? conditional? accessory?’! use in the B-1 and B-3 districts (and also in the B-4, B-6 and T districts if it is an accessory use in B-1) only when placed on a municipal structure...but there are no municipal structures in the B-1. B-3. B-4 or I districts!!!! The Navarre water tower is in the LR-IC district. The only municipal structure in B-6 is the well house near Otten Brothers Nursery. Since we don't want a PWS antenna or tower on the well house, then item 11 needs to be dropped . Section I of the proposed ordinance deletes the portion of Ord. 161, 2s that allowed Personal Wireless Service Antennas and Towers in the B districts. It also re-enacts the portion that adds qualifying language to the Public Services conditional use. Section 2 deletes the "Antenna Structure" conditional use from B-1 in the same way it was deleted in all other districts. The impact of item 14 is that any existing I district antenna structures are now non-conforming . This is also resolved by Section 3 of the proposed ordinance. The impact of item 15 is that antennas and antenna structures are no longer allowed a 50% increase in height via CUP. Clarifying Questions Q, Did the Council intend that Accessory Antennas not be allowed in the 'B* or T districts? This has a significant negative impact on existing businesses, as many have existing accessory antennas which are no longer conforming. It is staffs opinion that the Council did not intend to disallow accessory antennas in the B and I districts. To resolve this, we should simply add the 'Accessory Antennas' and 'Amateur Short Wave Radio Antennas and Towers' provisions into the B-1 list of accessory uses {Section 3 of proposed ordinance). This will allow such antennas and towers in B-1, B-3, B-4, B-6 and I districts (but not in B-2 or B-5, which do not reference the B-1 accessory uses). As a separate issue not to be dealt with at this time, should accessory antennas be allowed in B-2 or B-5? Some may already exist... Q. Did the Council intend that Personal Wireless Service Antennas and Towers be limited to just the two City water towers? Staff believes this was the Council's intent. If so, then the Personal Wireless Service Antennas and Towers provision should be removed from the B-1 section and placed in the LR-IC section. Sections I and 4 of the proposed ordinance accomplish this.