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GRAND TERRACE: City to seek offers on cell phone towers

Note: Can anyone in the City of Grand Terrace offer their land for a Cell tower? Or is the City waiving it's own tower rules for the City's Benefit. People use the park, and live in the park and how is that different from having a ham radio tower next to your house?.. Is there a flag pole regulation? Sign me up... I could use an extra 200,000 per year.

10:00 PM PDT on Sunday, May 1, 2011

By DARRELL R. SANTSCHI
The Press-Enterprise

Selling space for cellular towers at a Grand Terrace park and fire station could pump as much as $364,000 into the cash-strapped city's coffers.

The City Council voted this week to seek competitive bids on space at Richard Rollins Park and fire station No. 23 on Center City Court after being approached by Unison Site Management.

Unison wanted a perpetual lease agreement for a 15-foot swath of land at the park and fire station, offering to split rent to be paid by cellular phone companies.

But Richard Shields, the city building and safety director, told the council the city sought bids from four other lease-buying companies and received responses from three. All three would have paid more than Unison's offer.

A consultant hired by the city says Grand Terrace could generate from $200,000 to $364,000 by soliciting competing offers. The city could then lease space on either a perpetual basis or for a specified time period.

A Verizon cell tower is built into a flagpole at Rollins Park and a cell tower at the fire station serves T-Mobile customers.

The council voted 5-0 to continue seeking bids.

Reach Darrell R. Santschi at 951-368-9484 or dsantschi@PE.com