The city intends to:
(A) Regulate the placement, construction and modification of small wind turbines throughout the city to protect and promote the economic vitality of the city and to protect property values;
(B) Minimize the visual impacts of wind turbines through careful design siting and landscape screening;
(C) Accommodate the growing need for small wind energy systems;
(D) Avoid potential damage to adjacent properties from small wind turbines failure through engineering and careful siting of tower structures;
(E) To the greatest extent feasible, provide that proposed small wind turbine shall be designed in harmony with the natural setting and the surrounding development pattern as well as to the highest industry standards; and
(F) Establish criteria designed to minimize adverse health, safety, public welfare and visual impacts through siting, design and construction and buffering requirements.
(Ord. 47-09, passed 5-4-2009)