(a) "Accessory Facility or Structure" means an accessory facility or structure serving or being used in conjunction with Wireless Telecommunication Facilities and located on the same property or lot as the Wireless Telecommunication Facilities, including but not limited to, utility or transmission equipment, storage sheds or cabinets.
(b) "Alternative Antenna Support Structure" means trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles, flag poles, water tanks, signs and similar alternative design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.
(c) "Antenna" means a system of electrical conductors that transmit or receive electromagnetic waves or radio frequency signals. Such waves shall include, but not be limited to radio, television, cellular, paging, personal telecommunications services (PCS) and microwave telecommunications.
(d) "Antenna Height" means the vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure, even if said highest point is an antenna. Measurement of tower height shall include antenna, base pad and other appurtenances and shall be measured from the finished grade of the facility site. If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna height.
(e) "Applicant" means any person submitting an application to the City of Parkersburg for a Special Use Permit for wireless telecommunication facility.
(f) "Application" means the process of which a person or owner submits a request to develop, construct, build, modify or erect a tower or telecommunications facility upon a parcel of land within the City. Application shall include all written documentation, verbal statements and representations and any other pertinent information when requested by the Planning Director.
(g) "Co-location" means the use of a wireless telecommunications facility by more than one wireless telecommunications provider.
(h) "EPA" means the State and/or Federal Environmental Protection Agency or its duly designated and authorized successor agency.
(i) "Expansion" means the addition of antennas, towers or other devices to an existing structure.
(j) "FAA" means the Federal Aviation Administration or its duly designated and authorized successor agency.
(k) "FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission or its duly designated and authorized successor agency.
(l) "NIER" means non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.
(m) "Owner" means any person with fee title or a long-term (exceeding ten (10) years) leasehold to any parcel of land within the City who desires to develop or construct, build, modify, or erect a Tower upon such parcel of land.
(n) “Person” means any individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, joint stock company, limited liability company, association of two (2) or more persons having a joint common interest, or any other entity.
(o) "Radio Frequency (RF) Propagation Map" means a multicolored map depicting a visual representation of the proposed coverage area and signal strength within the proposed coverage area, regularly used by radio frequency engineers when designing a communications network.
(p) "Satellite Dish" (also known as Parabolic Antenna) means an antenna which is bowl shaped, designed for the reception and/or transmission of radio frequency communication signals in a specific directional pattern.
(q) "Special Use Permit" means the official document or permit by which an applicant is allowed to construct and use wireless telecommunication facilities as granted or issued by the Planning Director or Municipal Planning Commission.
(r) "Structure" means anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location to the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground. The word "structure" shall include the word "building".
(s) "Survey" means a survey containing the seal and certification of a West Virginia licensed professional land surveyor.
(t) "Towers" means any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, and the like.
(u) "Tower, Abandoned" means any tower not in service. A tower not in service may be characterized as not having any antennas or any other device that looks like an antenna on the tower.
(v) "Tower, Guyed" means any tower using wire guys connecting above grade portions of a tower diagonally with the ground to provide support for tower and/or antenna.
(w) "Tower, Lattice" means structure which generally has three (3) or four (4) legs consisting of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal cross strips or bars that is designed to support communication antenna arrays. The structure legs are anchored to concrete and steel foundations (caissons) embedded into the soil.
(x) "Tower, Mobile" means any tower capable of being transported in, or by, a motor vehicle.
(y) "Tower, Monopole" means structure which consists of a single, freestanding pole designed to support communication antenna arrays. The structure is anchored to a single concrete and steel foundation (caisson) embedded into the soil.
(z) "Tower, temporary" means towers standing for sixty (60) consecutive days or less.
(Ord. 0-1017. Passed 2-12-02.)