A wireless telecommunications tower or facility is permitted in the following areas when in compliance with these regulations and approved by the Planning Commission according to Section 1232.06. Efforts shall be made to locate in the areas listed in the order of priority as listed. New wireless antennas may be co-located on existing communication towers with the approval of the Zoning Administrator.
(a) New wireless antennas may be located on existing structures which have been constructed for other purposes, such as, but not limited to, water towers, church towers, electric transmission towers, chimneys, and cooling towers, provided that any proposed antenna is located on and does not extend more than ten feet above the highest point of the existing structure, except as otherwise regulated in Section 1271.06. No new towers near such structures are permitted by right except as permitted in subsection (b) below.
(b) A wireless telecommunication tower may be located within a recorded electric high tension power line easement, provided that the proposed tower is to be located within forty feet of an existing electric high tension power line tower and will not exceed the height of the said tower by more than ten feet.
(c) A wireless telecommunication tower may be located in a C-1, C-2, C-3, P-1, P-2, I-1, or I-2 zoning district when located at a distance at least two times the height of the tower from any existing residence, residential district, or historic district.
(Ord. 75-2005. Passed 10-11-05.)