1147.02 OBJECTIVES.

   The following are the City’s objectives:

   (a)   To comply with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 including any follow-on rules and/or rule interpretations by the appropriate state, federal agencies and the courts.

   (b)   To work proactively with the various wireless telecommunications service providers to ensure rapid and reliable deployment of their services and technologies while minimizing the negative impacts on the City

   (c)   Protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse impacts of towers and antennas.

   (d)   Encourage the location of towers in non-residential areas and public property.

   (e)   Minimize the total number of towers throughout the community.

   (f)   Strongly encourage the joint use of new and existing tower sites as a primary option rather than construction of additional single use towers.

   (g)   Encourage the owners and operators of wireless towers and antennas to locate them, to the extent possible, in areas where the adverse impact on the community is minimal.

   (h)   Encourage owners and operators of Wireless Communication Facilities and antennas to configure them in a way that minimizes the adverse impact of the towers and antennas through careful design, siting, landscape screening, and innovative camouflaging techniques to be sure that, to the greatest extent feasible, that wireless towers and antennas and ancillary facilities are compatible with surrounding land users.

   (i)   Consider the public health and safety of Wireless Communication Facilities.

   (j)   Avoid potential damage to adjacent properties caused by Wireless Communication Facilities by ensuring such structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained and removed.

   (k)   To make available appropriate City owned property and structures for Wireless Communication Facilities.
(Ord. 73-00. Passed 1-2-01.)