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SUMMARY: The applicant, Sure -Site, LLC, requests approval of a Special Review Use <br />(SRU) to allow the construction of a roof mounted Commercial Mobile Radio Service <br />(CMRS) facility. The facility includes 12 new panel antennas and associated accessory <br />equipment, all mounted on the roof. The applicant proposes to expand the existing roof <br />top equipment screening and locate all antenna and equipment entirely behind <br />screening. The new screening will blend with the existing screening, and does not <br />result in additional height. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The property was annexed to the City of Louisville in 1979, zoned Planned Commercial <br />Zone District — Commercial in 1984 as part of the Centennial Valley General <br />Development Plan, and platted as Lot F, Centennial Valley Business Park Filing No. 8 in <br />1998. A PUD was approved for the property in 1998 allowing the construction of the <br />existing building on the property. <br />The existing building on the subject property is a 3-story office building constructed <br />primary of split -face CMU block. The building is roughly 44'-8" tall at the existing top of <br />the parapet wall. Additionally, there is existing roof -top mechanical equipment <br />screening that is 8'-0" tall, bringing the overall height of the building to 52'-8". <br />The SRU request comes forward to the Planning Commission in accordance with <br />Section 17.42 of the Louisville Municipal Code (LMC) entitled, `Telecommunications / <br />CMRS Facilities'. Section 17.42 provides specific regulations related to the location, <br />height, design, construction and review for CMRS facilities. <br />Section 17.08 defines CMRS facilities as follows: <br />17.08.076. — CMRS: " means commercial mobile radio services and is a facility <br />consisting of equipment for the reception, switching or receiving of wireless <br />telecommunications operating at 1,000 watts or less effective radiated power, and <br />utilizing frequencies authorized by the Federal Communications Commission for <br />cellular, paging, enhanced specialized mobile radio, personal communications systems <br />telecommunication services, point to point microwave signals, signals through FM radio <br />transmitters, and signals through FM boosters under ten watts effective radiated power" <br />17.08.047 Building mounted CMRS facility: "means any facility where the CMRS <br />antennae are proposed to be mounted on an existing or proposed building, and <br />excluding any facility meeting the definition of a freestanding CMRS facility or the <br />definition of an alternative tower structure". <br />Section 17.42.020 of the LMC outlines the types of CMRS facilities and locations by <br />zone district where such facilities are allowed and the associated review process <br />applicable to the specific type of facility. <br />Staff has determined the requested CMRS facility meets the definition of a building <br />mounted facility as the antennae are mounted on the roof of an existing building. As a <br />2 <br />14 <br />