As used in this chapter
(a) "Antenna" means any panel, whip, dish, or other apparatus designed for communications through the sending and/or receiving of electromagnetic waves, excluding any support structure other than brackets.
(b) "Antenna support structure" means any building or other structure other than a tower which can be used for location of wireless telecommunications facilities.
(c) "Applicant" means any person that applies for a permit pursuant to this chapter.
(d) "Application" means the process by which an applicant submits a request and indicates a desire to be granted a conditional use permit under the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance. An application includes all written documentation, verbal statements and representations in whatever form or forum, made by an application to the Village concerning such a request.
(e) "Village" means the Village of Edon, Ohio.
(f) "Co-location" means the use of a wireless telecommunications facility or pre-existing structure deemed suitable by appropriate technical analysis by more than one wireless telecommunications provider.
(g) "Emergency" means a reasonably unforeseen occurrence with a potential to endanger personal safety or health, or cause substantial damage to property, that calls for immediate action.
(h) "Engineer" means any engineer licensed by the State of Ohio.
(i) "Equipment shelter" means the structure in which the electronic receiving and relay equipment for a wireless telecommunications facility is housed.
(j) "F.A.A." means the Federal Aviation Administration and any legally appointed, designated or elected agent or successor.
(k) "F.C.C." means the Federal Communications Commission and any legally appointed, designated or elected agent or successor.
(l) "Monopole" means a support structure constructed to a single, self-supporting hollow metal tube securely anchored to a foundation.
(m) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or other legal entity, private or public, whether for profit or not-for-profit.
(n) "Tower" means a self-supporting lattice, guyed, or monopole structure constructed from grade which supports wireless telecommunications facilities. “Tower” shall not include amateur radio operators’ equipment, as licensed by the FCC.
(o) "Wireless telecommunication facility" means any cables, wires, lines, wave guides, antennas and any other equipment or facilities associated with the transmission or reception of communications as authorized by the FCC which a person seeks to locate or have installed upon a tower antenna support structure. However, “wireless telecommunications facilities” shall not include:
(1) Any satellite earth station antenna two meters in diameter or less which is located in an area zoned industrial or commercial.
(2) Any satellite earth station antenna one meter or less in diameter, regardless of zoning category.
(3) Antennas used by amateur radio operators.
(4) Antennas used by residents to receive broadcast radio or broadcast television.
(p) "Zoning Ordinance" means the Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Edon, Ohio.
(Ord 07-13. Passed 12-16-13.)