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City Council Meeting April 4, 2002 Page 4 approval of the ordinance. The motion carried 6 ayes, 1 nay, with Councilman McCarthy voting no. Mayor Pfiester declared the public hearing open to consider the petition of Faulk and Foster for a change in zoning from a Planned Development District (PD) to a Light Industrial District (LI) on Lot 2, city Block 315, being located at 3720 Lamar Avenue. Mayor Pfiester called for proponents to appear, and Belinda Bodie, 1811 Auburn Avenue, Monroe, Louisiana, appeared speaking in favor of the petition of Louisiana Wire who is requesting a change in zoning from Planned Development to Light Industrial. She advised that the site would be for Sprint and this lot fits the need of their client. Ms. Bodie said the reason for this request is because they would be filing for a tower use permit to place a communication tower on this site. Ms. Bodie gave background information regarding this company to the City Council. She advised that they were currently building their network in this area in accordance with FCC requirements. Ms. Bodie presented a search area map for this site and advised that there is no suitable site of any type within the bounds of the search area map. Ms. Bodie explained that without this site there would be a large are in the vicinity of this site with weak coverage and stressed the need for this location because of the high usage in the area. Ms. Bodie said due to the same factors, most commercial-use property is of high value and of small lot size. Ms. Bodie said the Big Tex site came closer to meeting the setbacks and they do meet the requirements to the back of the property. Ms. Bodie said the tower would handle two additional antennas. Steve Methven, Chief Building Official, came forward telling the City Council that even if rezoning occurred, this site would not meet the criteria of the City of Paris's new tower ordinance. Mr. Methven also pointed out that with the Planned Development zoning the city can control what is placed on the lot, but with the Light Industrial zoning you can place almost anything in that type zomng.