It is likely that a better choice for a tower site would have been the conservation land to the north of Plaza Royale or on top of the Church at the intersection of NW 8th Ave and NW 36th Street.
This map was copied off of Sprint's website. The location of all existing towers are shown as orange dots with black rings. The proposed monopole location is also shown as a cyan dot. A quick visual scan shows that this proposal is poorly located to serve Sprint's true needs. A larger view is presented below.
Enlargement of the map above.

Note the average distance between Sprint towers in the area which is 1 to 2 miles. You will then note that there is only about a half mile from the proposed site to the tower immediately south.

Then observe the relatively large distance to the towers north of the proposed site.



Sprint's agents have claimed that Sprint has very specific and narrow requirements pertaining to where they can locate their new tower.

The maps below were extracted from Sprint's own web pages and show the location of current Sprint towers in the Gainesville area. The webpage where these maps was obtained is:
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps2.jsp?cityid=20&city=Jacksonville

The maps clearly show that the proposed monopole is in very close proximity to another, already existing, Sprint site. The orange colored dots represent existing Sprint towers

Sprint has stated that the tower is required to fill a coverage hole, however, the map shows that many locations around the area have towers much more distantly placed than Sprint has proposed here. It is unclear that an additional tower is needed and, even if Sprint could demonstrate a need in the area, the proposed site is clearly not even close to the optimum location for them.