As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) Co-location: The use of a wireless telecommunications facility by more than one wireless telecommunications provider or by one provider for more than one type of telecommunication technology.
(b) High Tension Power Line: A line that carries an electric current at 345 kv or greater.
(c) Lattice tower: A support structure constructed of vertical metal struts and cross braces forming a triangular or square structure, which often tapers from the foundation to the top.
(d) Monopole: A support structure constructed of a single, self-supporting hollow metal tube securely anchored to a foundation.
(e) Technically Suitable Location: Suitable for use as the site of a wireless telecommunication antenna that reasonably serves the purpose for which it is intended, namely to operate a communication system, within the bandwidth of frequencies for which the owner or operator of the antenna has been licensed by the FCC to operate, without a significant loss of the applicant's communication capability within developed areas of the City.
(f) Telecommunications: The technology which enables information to be exchanged through the transmission of voice, video, or data signals by means of electrical or electromagnetic systems.
(g) Wireless telecommunications antenna: The physical device through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission be transmitted or received. Antennas used by amateur radio operators are excluded from this definition.
(h) Wireless telecommunications facility: A facility consisting of the equipment and structures involved in receiving telecommunications or radio signals from a mobile radio communications source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects the mobile unit with the land-based telephone lines.
(i) Wireless telecommunications tower: A structure intended to support equipment used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals, including monopoles and guyed and lattice construction steel structures.
(Ord. 89-99. Passed 12-14-99.)