(A) No person shall be permitted to site, place, build, construct or modify, or prepare any site for the placement or use of wireless telecommunications facilities as of the effective date of this chapter without having first obtained a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, no special use permit shall be required for those exceptions noted in the definition of wireless telecommunications facilities, such as those used exclusively for fire, police and other dispatch telecommunications, or exclusively for private radio and television reception and private citizen's bands, amateur radio and other similar telecommunications.
(B) New construction, including routine maintenance on existing wireless telecommunications facilities, shall comply with the requirements of this chapter.
(C) All wireless telecommunications facilities existing on or before the effective date of this chapter shall be allowed to continue as they presently exist, provided however, that any modification to existing wireless telecommunications facilities must comply with this chapter.
(Ord. 2002-01, passed 2-13-02)