(A) Locations. To assist applicants, staff and the approval authority understand and respond to the community's aesthetic preferences and values, this division describes preferred and discouraged locations for wireless facilities.
(1) Preferred locations. All applicants must, to the extent technically feasible and potentially available, propose new facilities in a preferred location. No alternative sites analysis is required for new stealth facilities proposed in any preferred location. For all other new facilities, the approval authority shall consider whether any more preferred location would be technically feasible or potentially available. The following locations are all "preferred" and ordered from most preferred to least preferred:
(a) Industrial zones;
(b) Commercial zones;
(c) Other non-residential zones; and
(d) Public facilities zone when not directly adjacent to residentially zoned parcels.
(2) Discouraged locations. Applicants shall not propose to install wireless facilities in a discouraged location unless no alternative site in a preferred location would be technically feasible. If all preferred locations are technically infeasible, the applicant shall use the least-discouraged location. The following locations are discouraged, and ordered from most discouraged to least discouraged:
(a) Historic resource zones and properties;
(b) Public facilities zone when directly adjacent to residentially zoned parcels; and
(c) Residential zones.
(B) Support structures. To assist applicants, staff and the approval authority understand and respond to the community's aesthetic preferences and values, and to mitigate the impact of wireless infrastructure deployment, the city requires wireless facilities to be installed on support structures, ordered from most preferred to least preferred, as follows:
(1) Existing structures with existing wireless facilities;
(2) Existing rooftops;
(3) Existing building façades, signs, water tank/towers, field lights, or other non-tower structures; and
(4) New freestanding structures outside the public rights-of-way.
(5) To the extent that a proposed support structure is not included in this list, the Director may, in the Director's discretion, determine the level of preference for such structure consistent with the goals and purpose of this division.
(Ord. 995 C.S., passed 10-19-22)