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<br />60 <br />the City Council in January 2015, the City has executed an Amended License Agreement with <br />San Leandro Dark Fiber to include the conduit expansion in the Lit San Leandro project. <br />A key element of the expansion proposal is connection to the City’s Shoreline <br />Development project. Fiber optics has been brought to the site of the planned future mixed–use <br />development project and will enhance the City’s ability to attract a premium, high–tech tenant to <br />the office component of the larger mixed use project. Additionally, Phase I of the San Leandro <br />Tech Campus, now under completion, will connect to the internet via Lit San Leandro’s 10 gbps <br />connection. Over 750K sf of Class A, LEED rated commercial office space, 850 space parking <br />garage and possibly a hotel will be connected to Lit San Leandro, providing the fast speeds <br />demanded by modern tech companies. The Tech Campus will also be the site of the City’s first <br />renewable energy micro grid – a powerful Smart City, data driven application enabled by Lit San <br />Leandro. <br />SLDF owns the fiber that occupies the City’s conduit. In exchange for this business <br />relationship, the City receives 30 strands of fiber unrestricted as to use throughout the original <br />and expanded network. Within the expansion conduit, the City receives an additional 42 <br />strands of fiber “solely for internal communication needs and public projects”. These additional <br />42 strands cannot be used for resale or other commercial ventures other than with SLDF. <br />In 2015 the City signed a License Agreement with the San Leandro Unified School <br />District to provide, at no cost to the District, four fibers to connect all 17 school sites to a <br />dedicated, ubiquitous, synchronous 10 gbps connection to the internet – the fastest speeds <br />commercially available in the United States. Construction was completed in August 2016, just <br />in time to launch each school’s 10 gbps connection at the start of the 2016–17 school year. <br />The City–owned strands provide San Leandro with a unique infrastructure tool, in line <br />with Tier 1 cities across the United States that have access to a fiber optic network for their <br />community, cities like Chattanooga, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri; Austin, Texas; <br />Cleveland, Ohio; Burlington VT. These are just a few of the cities across the United States <br />developing a “Smart City” vision of modern urban development that includes integration of <br />multiple information and communication technology solutions in a secure fashion to manage a <br />city’s assets. <br />These assets can include, but are not limited to information systems, transportation, <br />libraries, hospitals, power, education, etc. For example, the new contract approved by the City <br />Council with Climatec is a Smart City application: the new LED lights will be installed with a <br />wireless transmitter on top of each pole, sending data to Public Works that informs them of the <br />operating status of each street light. Inoperable lights will be replaced more quickly, the new <br />lights will cost less to operate and are brighter, improving service to the San Leandro <br />Community. <br />San Leandro has a significant opportunity to realize its own potential as a nationally <br />recognized Smart City, leveraged by the unique fiber optic network we know as Lit San <br />Leandro.