The following standards shall apply to all conditionally permitted cellular or personal communications antennas and towers:
A. The cellular or personal communications company shall be required to demonstrate, using the latest technological evidence, that the antenna or tower must be placed where it is proposed in order to satisfy its necessary function in the company's grid system.
B. If the cellular or personal communications company proposes to build a cellular or personal communications tower (as opposed to mounting the antenna on an existing structure), it is required to demonstrate that it has contacted the owners of nearby tall structures within a one-quarter (1/4) mile radius of the site proposed, by certified mail, return receipt requested, and has asked for permission to install the cellular or personal communications antenna on those structures. "Tall structures" shall include, but not be limited to: smoke stacks, water towers, buildings over fifty (50) feet in height, antenna support structures of other cellular communication companies, other communication towers and roadway lighting poles. Documentation that the "tall structure" is sound and capable of supporting the additional loads resulting from the antenna(s) installation, shall be submitted to the City by a registered design professional on behalf of the communications company.
The City may deny the application to construct a new cellular or personal communications tower if the applicant has not made a good faith effort to mount the antenna on existing structures.
Any decision to deny a permit to place, construct or modify a wireless communications antenna and/or tower shall be in writing and supported by substantial evidence.
(Ord. 98-176. Passed 8-3-98.)