The following definitions shall apply to wireless telecommunication facilities:
(a) “Buffer” means a fence, landscape screen, and/or wall that will prevent access and that will be at least six (6) feet in height and shall have an opacity of eighty percent (80%) within two (2) years of the facility being constructed. Said buffer shall be located around the perimeter of said wireless telecommunication facility.
(b) “Collocation” means the use of a wireless telecommunication facility by more than one wireless telecommunication provider.
(c) “Fiber Optics Communication Systems” means a network of fiber optic cables and all related property including conduit, carrier pipe, cable fibers, repeaters, power sources, and other attachments and appurtenances necessary for fiber optics communication. This may entail installation above ground on overhead lines or underground in conduit.
(d) “Monopole” means a structure constructed of a single, self-supporting hollow metal tube securely anchored to a foundation with a wireless telecommunication antenna(s).
(e) “Telecommunication” means the technology, which enable information to be exchanged through the transmission of voice, video, or data signals by means of electrical or electromagnetic systems. “Telecommunication” includes, but is not limited, to the receiving or transmitting of cellular phones, pagers, radios, televisions, personal telecommunication services, or other ground-wired telecommunication systems.
(f) “Wireless telecommunication antenna” means the physical device through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunication signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are transmitted or received. These may be placed on the monopole or on a structure. Antennas used by amateur radio operators are excluded from this definition.
(g) “Wireless telecommunications equipment shelter” means a facility, containing not more than 2,500 square feet of area measured from the buffer perimeter, consisting of the equipment and structures involved in receiving telecommunications or radio signals from a mobile radio communication source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects the mobile unit with the land-based telephone lines. The facility shall include the wireless telecommunications equipment shelter, the wireless telecommunications tower, wireless telecommunications antenna, buffer surrounding the shelter, antenna tower, monopole, and any other apparatus associated with the facility.
(h) “Wireless telecommunications tower” means a monopole structure intended to support equipment used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals.
(Ord. 2020-4053. Passed 1-7-21.)