The following standards shall apply to all conditionally permitted cellular or wireless communication antennas and towers:
(a) The cellular or wireless 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 wireless communications company proposed to build a cellular or wireless communications tower (as opposed to mounting the antenna on an existing structure), the company is required to demonstrate that it has contacted the owner of nearby tall structures within a one (1) mile radius of the proposed site, asked for permission to install the cellular or wireless communications antennas on those structures, and was denied for reasons other than economic ones. "Tall structures" shall include, but are not limited to: smoke stacks, water towers, buildings over fifty (50) feet in height, antenna support structures of other cellular or wireless communication companies, other communication towers and roadway lighting poles.
The City may deny the application to construct a new cellular or wireless communications tower if the applicant has not made a good faith effort to mount the antenna on existing structures.
(Ord. 99-1966. Passed 5-4-99.)