The following are the city's objectives regarding wireless communication regulations:
(A) To comply with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended, including any subsequent rules and/or rule interpretations by appropriate state and federal agencies and/or courts.
(B) To work proactively with wireless communications providers to ensure rapid and reliable deployment of their services/technologies, while minimizing negative effects on the city.
(C) To ensure that the location of towers and wireless communications facilities in the city provide appropriate wireless communication coverage consistent with these objectives.
(D) To allow, under certain conditions, appropriate city-owned property and structures to be used for wireless communications facilities.
(E) To minimize adverse visual impacts of towers and wireless communications facilities through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques.
(F) To promote and encourage shared use/co-location of towers and antenna support structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single-use towers.
(G) To ensure towers and wireless communications facilities are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer in use.
(H) To ensure to the maximum extent practicable that towers and wireless communications facilities are compatible with surrounding and nearby land uses.
(I) To ensure to the maximum extent practicable that proposed towers and wireless communications facilities are placed in locations that are designed to preserve adjacent natural settings and in a manner consistent with existing and planned development patterns.
(Ord. 19-13, passed 3-25-13; Am. Ord. 41-18, passed 6-25-18)