Essential utility services shall be permitted in any district as authorized and regulated by the laws and ordinances of the City. It is the intent to exempt such essential services from the application of this section; except that, without in any way altering or otherwise affecting such exemption, the plans for any overhead electric transmission line of sixty nine and zero tenths (69.0) kilovolts or more, on metal or wooden poles or towers or pole structures or of any cross country telephone trunk line including microwave, transmission pipe line, natural gas line, trunk sewer line or substation proposed to be erected or installed in any environmentally sensitive or residential district shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for review and approval before the beginning of construction.
(Ord. 99-1966. Passed 5-4-99.)