(A) Small wireless facilities located in the following areas of the village shall be subject to the design standards as described in this section. The intent of these design standards is to minimize the negative aesthetic impact which the village has concluded will occur if these standards were not imposed. The standards are intended to provide flexibility based upon products available in the market which satisfy the conditions of these design standards. Denial of a permit application which village staff determines is inconsistent with these design standards may be appealed by the applicant to the Village Board, pursuant to the procedures and standards set forth in §§ 160.18 and 160.20 of this chapter. The village’s design standards shall apply in the following geographic areas or environs (hereinafter “designated areas”):
(1) Right-of-way contiguous to the frontage of buildings in the village business zoning district and redevelopment areas designed under the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act;
(2) Right-of-way contiguous to the frontage and corner side yards located in residential zoning districts only containing street lights;
(3) Right-of-way contiguous to the frontage of buildings where other utilities such as electric lines and telephone lines are buried and which contain only light poles; and
(4) The rights-of-way in residential zoning districts where existing utility poles are located contiguous to the rear yards of homes.
(B) Unless granted a variation from the requirements of §§ 160.19 and 160.20 of this chapter in accordance with the variation provisions set forth in § 160.18 of this chapter, the following standards shall be met by all occupiers of rights-of-way except franchises in designated areas, including all small wireless providers, from the effective date of this chapter.
(1) All lattice structures are prohibited.
(2) No new guy wires shall be placed upon an existing utility pole or wireless support structure unless an existing utility pole or wireless support structure has guy wires and the new guy wires are for hardening purposes only.
(3) No new utility pole or wireless support structure shall be constructed in designated areas unless it is a replacement for an existing utility pole or wireless support structure.
(4) All antennas and related equipment constructed on non-decorative existing utility poles and wireless support structures shall be a color that will provide the least intrusive visualization as determined by the Zoning Administrator. The wireless facilities mounted on the utility pole or wireless support structure shall be of the same color as the utility pole or wireless support structure.
(5) Decorative light poles in designated areas shall be replaced with a new utility pole or wireless support structure of similar design to the replaced existing utility pole or wireless support structure and all antennas shall be hidden within the utility pole or wireless support structure or concealed to the degree reasonably possible to appear like an original part of the utility pole or wireless support structure. In all designated areas, wires serving the wireless facility shall be concealed within or flush mounted to the utility pole or wireless support structure in an enclosed wire chase.
(6) Top mounted antennas shall be flush to the diameter of the top of the utility pole or wireless support structure. In no event shall the diameter of the top mounted antenna exceed 15% of the diameter of the utility pole or wireless support structure.
(7) For existing utility poles and wireless support structures in right-of-ways having frontage and in residential areas, side mounted antennas and their enclosures shall be flush mounted to the utility pole or wireless support structure at the level of the antenna attachment.
(8) In no circumstances shall antennas be mounted less than 12 feet above ground level.
(9) For streetlight fixtures and traffic control signals, replacement poles and small wireless facilities shall be roughly equal in size to the volume of the street lights, luminaires in bases in the area to achieve a balanced appearance.
(10) The decorative base of a decorative street light or luminaire shall be between 10-25% of the pole height.
(11) The length of arms extending from the base shall be no more than 20-25% of the utility pole or wireless support structure’s height.
(12) Arms extending from the utility pole or wireless support structure shall be within 20% of the total utility pole or wireless support structure height measured from the top of the utility pole or wireless support structure.
(13) Street light fixtures shall meet AASHTO structural guidelines for roadway applications and ANSI requirements for vibrations.
(14) Utility pole and wireless support structure height shall be measured from the ground to the top of the utility pole or wireless support structure which shall include antennas built into or appended to the utility pole or wireless support structure.
(15) Utility pole and wireless support structure heights shall be consistent with those as authorized by this chapter.
(16) New utility poles and new wireless support structures shall be located where the shared property line between two residential parcels intersects a right-of-way whenever possible, unless such placement would result in an unsafe condition, cluttered appearance, or other violation of this chapter.
(17) New utility poles and new wireless support structures and replacement utility poles and wireless support structures shall be equal distance from other utility poles or wireless support structures based upon the average distance between existing utility poles or wireless support structures within the designated area.
(Ord. 2018-12, passed 7-24-2018)