City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2019
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: JOANNA C. ANDERSON, CITY ATTORNEY /s/
KAREN SNOW, ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY /s/
CC: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of a Five-Year License Agreement with Crown Castle Fiber LLC., to Authorize Existing Telecommunications Facilities and to Authorize the Installation of Conduits and Fiber Optic Cables in the City of Alexandria's Public Rights of Ways but not for Cable Television.
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ISSUE: Consideration of a five-year license agreement with Crown Castle Fiber LLC, to authorize its existing conduits and fiber optic cables which it acquired from Lightower Fiber Networks II, LLC., to remain in the City of Alexandria's public rights-of-ways to allow Crown Castle to provide telecommunications systems, not cable television services, in the City of Alexandria ("City").
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council set this matter for a public hearing on Saturday, November 16, 2019, and after hearing public testimony approve the attached five year license agreement with Crown Castle, and authorize the City Manager to execute the license agreement and to take any other actions that are necessary to implement the license agreement.
DISCUSSION: The City has an existing license agreement with Lightower Fiber Networks, II, LLC., dated April 23, 2015, for the use of the City's rights of ways to operate a telecommunications system and delivery of telecommunications services. Crown Castle acquired Lightower in 2017, and, as a result of the acquisition, Lightower became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Crown Castle. Crown Castle now seeks to become the licensee of the telecommunications routes in the City previously owned by Lightower. These routes are the following:
1. Goodwin House, 2800 Fillmore Street. This is approximately...
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