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rh <br />M <br />i I <br />r <br />JOHN R. DuBOIS <br />REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS <br />CONSULTING ENGINEER <br />29267 ROUND LAKE ROAD <br />NEW AUBURN. Wl 54757 <br />July 6, 1997 <br />Ms. Elizabeth Van Zomeren <br />Planning/Zoning Administration <br />City of Orono <br />P.O. Box 66 <br />Crystal Bay, MN 55323-0066 <br />Dear Ms. Van Zomeren; <br />Ref: City File No. 2246 <br />Donald J. Currier Jr. <br />TELEPHONE (715) 967-2321 <br />FAX (715) 967-2221 <br />pnr CITY OF I <br />1 ORONO J <br />JUL 3 ISST <br />This letter/report is in answer to you letter to me dated July 2, 1997 in which you asked me to review <br />and comment on a Zoning variance/conditional use permit (CUP) (No. 2246) regarding an amateur <br />radio antenna installation for Donald J. Currier of 60 Cygnet Place in Long Lake, MN 55356. <br />As you note in your analysis, Mr. Currier's CUP is necessary because his proposed 70 foot "crank-up" <br />amateur radio tower is 5 feet in excess of the new Orono ordinance regarding towers. <br />FACTS OF THIS MATTER: <br />o <br />0 <br />Applicant is a duly licensed amateur radio operator. <br />Applicant states a major interest in international short wave communications which generally <br />means that the 20 meter amateur band will be used extensively and a 20 meter beam antenna <br />will be mounted atop a retractable 65 foot metal tower. The mast for the beam antenna, a <br />rotator and the antenna itself will increase the overall structure height to 70 feet above <br />ground. <br />The optimum height for a beam antenna for use on the 20 metci amateur beam is 70 teet <br />above ground. So Mr. Currier is spending the time and money to optimize his participation <br />in a avocation that involves over 200,000 U.S. citizens, and many more "hams" or amateur <br />radio operators around the world. <br />Mr. Currier has had the wisdom and forethought to contact his closest neighbors, Mr. Harde <br />J. Panuska and Ms. Peg Panuska of 20 Cygnet Place in Long Lake and he has explained his <br />CUP request to them. Mr. & Mrs. Panuska have provided written approval for Currier’s <br />plans with the Zoning Variance Department. <br />In my many years of experience, in this field with this type of controversy, by far the greatest <br />problem has always been neighborhood disapproval. The City of Orono is unlikely to receive <br />criticism from other neighbors since Mr. & Mrs Panuska are the most affected of all <br />neighbors.