Compliance with the design standards stated within this section shall be included in the application for any small wireless facility, including but not limited to specifications and drawings prepared and certified by an Illinois Licensed structural engineer with photographs or renderings to provide sufficient evidence that the proposed design of the small wireless facility and related appurtenances will aesthetically and architecturally match and conform with the utility pole, wireless support structure, historical district, or surroundings otherwise. All small wireless facilities, its housing, cabinets, antennas, supporting structures, radio units, cooling equipment, fans, cabling, wiring, meter, backup power supplies, electrical communication system interconnects, related appurtenances, and its stealth and/or concealment designs must be kept in a "like new" condition at all times.
(A) Design standards for utility pole and wireless support structures. In the event that the proposed small wireless facility is proposed to be attached to a new utility pole or wireless support structure, the new utility pole or wireless support structure shall be fabricated from material similar or consistent with and shall match architecturally and aesthetically, blending in design and color, the type of utility poles or structure in the immediate vicinity of the proposed location. All small wireless facility applications shall include photographs or renderings of the proposed location and its surrounding utility poles, structures, and buildings, and shall include specifications, drawings, and photographs or renderings depicting the new utility pole or structure with a design that matches architecturally and aesthetically, blending in design and color, the type of utility poles or structures surrounding the proposed location.
(B) Design standards for small wireless facilities.
(1) All small wireless facility applications shall include specifications, drawings, and photographs or renderings that depict the proposed small wireless facility, its housing, cabinets, antennas, supporting structures, radio units, cooling equipment, fans, cabling, wiring, meter, backup power supplies, electrical communication system interconnects, related appurtenances affixed to or related to the operation of to the small wireless facility with stealth and/or concealment designs to match architecturally and aesthetically, blending in design and color, the utility pole, wireless support structure, or any other structure to which it is proposed for collocation to minimize visual impact of any small wireless facility.
(2) No small wireless facility, its housing, cabinets, antennas, supporting structures, radio units, cooling equipment, fans, cabling, wiring, meter, backup power supplies, electrical communication system interconnects, related appurtenances, concealment, stealthing shall be painted, finished, or designed in a way that does not match or complement the material, design, and color of the pole to which it is attached.
(3) For areas designated as historic districts, or on buildings or structures designated as a historic landmark, in addition to the stealth, concealment, and aesthetic requirements of this section, small wireless facilities, its housing, cabinets, antennas, supporting structures, radio units, cooling equipment, fans, cabling, wiring, meter, backup power supplies, electrical communication system interconnects, and related appurtenances shall be fabricated of materials that are consistent with the surrounding elements so as to blend architecturally and aesthetically with any building or structure and to match the historic district or building both in design, color, and material and to minimize visual impact of the small wireless facility.
(C) Design standards for ground mounted facilities.
(1) Where a ground-mounted facility is permitted, the applicant shall use stealth and/or concealment designs for the ground mounted facility, its housing, cabinets, antennas, structures, radio units, cooling equipment, fans, cabling, wiring, meter, backup power supplies, electrical communication system interconnects, and related appurtenances affixed to or related to the operation of to the small wireless facility so as to match architecturally and aesthetically, blending in design and color, the poles or structures in its immediate vicinity and to minimize visual impact.
(2) Such ground mounted facilities and equipment shall be screened around the perimeter in accordance with a landscape plan certified by a professional landscape engineer. Plant materials shall include a mixture of deciduous and coniferous planting materials. The wireless provider shall be responsible for maintenance of all landscaping as provided in the approved landscape plan.
(Ord. 1098, passed 10-3-2018)