(A) These provisions are intended to establish criteria for the siting, design, modifications and maintenance of wireless communications facilities within the city as specifically set forth herein and in standards that may be enacted by resolution pursuant to this subchapter.
(B) These provisions are further intended to implement the land use regulation of telecommunications facilities as permitted pursuant to the 1996 Federal Telecommunications Act. As such, these provisions are not intended to unduly restrict or unreasonably interfere with the development of the competitive wireless communications marketplace within the city.
(C) The standards and guidelines established for antennas, towers, and/or wireless communications facilities in this subchapter are intended to promote the following goals:
(1) Ensure the health, safety and general welfare of the community while enabling the installation of antennas to serve the city’s residents and business community;
(2) Ensure a communications network that will serve an effective role in the city’s emergency response system and generally provide full service coverage for personal wireless communications services;
(3) Protect the visual character of the city through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques for antennas;
(4) Encourage the installation of new towers and antennas in the Commercial and Industrial zones;
(5) Limit the proliferation of new towers by permitting the construction of new towers only after all other reasonable opportunities have been exhausted and to encourage the co-location of antennas so as to minimize adverse visual impacts; and
(6) Provide for the uniform application of standards and guidelines for the siting, design, modification and maintenance of communications facilities as allowed under state law and the 1996 Telecommunications Act, as may be amended.
(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)