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REPORT - AMENDMENT TO COUNCIL POLICY 300-04 - DEVELOPMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES ON CITY PROPERTY AND INSTALLATION OF ANTENNAS ON CITY FACILITIES
BACKGROUND: Over the past year, the City has been contacted by a handful of wireless communications service providers expressing strong interest in accessing and using City-controlled spaces on utility poles and streetlight poles for the purpose of installing wireless antennas and related infrastructure. Wireless communications companies are experiencing increasing demand for fourth generation (“4G”) wireless communications services and are expanding their wireless antenna networks to improve both broadband facilities’ capacity and coverage in Santa Rosa. The City has been supportive of the placement of advanced wireless communications facilities in Santa Rosa since Congress enacted the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the “1996 Act”). In July 2000, the Council adopted Policy 300-04 (“Development of telecommunications Facilities on ...
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