(a) Landscaping shall be installed on the outside of any fencing.
(b) All telecommunication facilities, towers and antenna support structures shall be screened and landscaped. Such screening and landscaping shall include one row of evergreen shrubs or trees capable of forming a continuous hedge of at least six (6) feet in height within two (2) years of planting. A maintenance plan for the landscape materials shall also be submitted at the time of the application.
(c) All sites shall be reasonably protected against unauthorized climbing. The bottom of the tower, measured from ground level to twelve (12) feet above ground level, shall be designed in a manner to discourage unauthorized climbing. Sites shall have at least an eight (8') foot fence topped by a one (1') foot high, three-strand, barbed wire projection angled out surrounding the tower and telecommunication facilities. All fences shall be properly and adequately marked and designated in such fashion and manner so as to alert and warn an ordinarily observant person.
(d) Advertising or identification of any kind on towers, antenna support structures and telecommunication facilities shall be prohibited, except for applicable warning and equipment information signage required by the manufacturer or by Federal, State or local regulations.
(e) There shall be a buffer between towers and all residential and/or business zoned lands. Towers shall be separated from all residential and/or business zoned lands by a minimum of four hundred (400) feet. Tower separation distances from residential and/or business zoned lands shall be measured from the base of a tower to the closest point of residential and/or business property. The minimum tower separation distances from residential and/or business zoned land and from other towers shall be calculated and applied irrespective of City jurisdictional boundaries.
(Ord. 0-1017. Passed 2-12-02.)