§ 156.015 OVERALL POLICY AND DESIRED GOALS.

   In order to ensure that the placement, construction, and modification of wireless telecommunications facilities protects the county’s health, safety, public welfare, environmental features, the nature and character of the community and neighborhood and other aspects of the quality of life specifically listed elsewhere in this chapter, the county hereby adopts an overall policy with respect to a special use or zoning compliance permit for wireless telecommunications facilities for the express purpose of achieving the following goals:

   (A)   Implementing an application process for person(s) seeking a special use or zoning compliance permit for wireless telecommunications facilities;

   (B)   Establishing a policy for examining an application for and issuing a special use or zoning compliance permit for wireless telecommunications facilities that is both fair and consistent;

   (C)   Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the sharing and/or co-location of wireless telecommunications facilities among service providers;

   (D)   Promoting, and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height, and quantity of wireless telecommunications facilities in such a manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and generally in the same area as the requested location of such wireless telecommunications facilities, which shall mean using the least visually and physically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and circumstances;

   (E)   Assuring that any wireless telecommunications facilities are designed and constructed so as to be structurally sound and otherwise safe; and

    (F)   Assuring that wireless telecommunications facilities are constructed in compliance with all applicable codes and regulations, and in accordance with the plans and design materials as approved during the permitting process.

(1996 Code, § 156.10) (Ord. passed 10-7-2002; Ord. passed 12-3-2007)