In order to ensure that the placement, construction and modification of wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities protects the City’s health, safety, public welfare, environmenta1 features and other aspects of quality of life specifically listed elsewhere in this chapter, the Planning Commission hereby adopts an overall policy with respect to a special use permit for wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities for the express purpose of achieving the following goals:
(a) Implementing an application process for person(s) seeking a special use permit for wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities;
(b) Establishing a policy for examining an application for and issuing a special use permit for wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities that is both fair and consistent;
(c) Establishing reasonable time frames for granting or not granting a special use permit for wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities, or recertifying or not recertifying, or revoking the special use permit granted under this chapter;
(d) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the sharing and/or collocation of wireless telecommunications facilities among service providers; MWISP does not co-locate; and
(e) Providing and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities in such a manner as to minimize adverse aesthetic impacts to the land, property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area as the requested location of such wireless telecommunications and MWISP facilities.
(Ord. 2022-24. Passed 5-24-22.)