A. Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to establish requirements for the siting and use of wireless facilities in the public ways in a manner that facilitates the delivery of wireless services within the City, while minimizing associated adverse impacts. The goals of this chapter are to:
1. Provide for the managed development and installation, maintenance, modification, and removal of wireless services infrastructure in the City to provide adequate wireless communications coverage, without unreasonably discriminating against wireless providers of functionally equivalent services including all of those who install, maintain, and operate wireless facilities.
2. Promote and protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and specifically, protecting aesthetic values, by reducing the visibility of wireless facilities and structures to the fullest extent possible through techniques including but not limited to camouflage/concealment, design techniques, and undergrounding of wireless facilities and the equipment associated therewith, where appropriate.
3. Encourage the deployment of smaller, less intrusive wireless facilities to supplement existing telecommunications facilities.
4. Encourage owners and users of wireless facilities and structures to locate them, to the extent possible, where the adverse impact on the community is minimized.
5. Enhance the ability of wireless providers to provide such wireless services to the community quickly, effectively, and efficiently.
6. Effectively manage wireless facilities in the public way.
B. Scope:
1. This chapter shall provide the basic local scheme for providers of wireless services and systems that require the use of the public ways, including providers of both the system and service, and those providers of the system only.
2. The requirements set forth in this chapter shall apply to all wireless facilities and structures located within the public way, and to all applications to locate or modify wireless facilities and structures within City public way. This chapter shall apply to all future wireless providers and to all wireless providers in the City prior to the effective date hereof, whether operating with or without a license.
3. The activities regulated by this chapter are subject to terms of the Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act, Utah Code title 54, chapter 21, or its successor.
C. Excluded Activity: This chapter shall not apply to video service systems, wireline services, or macro wireless facilities. (Ord. 42-18, 2018)