For use in this chapter the following terms are defined:
1. Antenna means communications equipment that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of Wireless Services. This definition does not apply to broadcast antennas, antennas designed for amateur radio use, or satellite dishes for residential or household purposes.
2. Applicant means any person or entity submitting an application to install Small Wireless Facilities or structures to support the facilities within a public right-of-way.
3. City-Owned Infrastructure means infrastructure in public right-of-way within the boundaries of the City, including, but not limited to, streetlights, traffic signals, towers, structures, or buildings owned, operated or maintained by the City. The use of traffic signal poles is strongly discouraged and use of mast arms by any utility is strictly forbidden.
4. Collocate or Collocation means the mounting or installation of additional transmission equipment on a support structure already in use for the purpose of transmitting or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes.
5. Micro Wireless Facility means a Small Wireless Facility with dimensions no larger than twenty-four inches in length, fifteen inches in width, and twelve inches in height and that has an exterior antenna, if any, that is no more than eleven inches in length.
6. Monopole means a structure composed of a single spire, pole or tower designed and used to support antennas or related equipment and that is not a utility pole, a wireless support structure, or a City-owned infrastructure.
7. Public Right-of-Way or ROW means the area on, below, or above property that has been designated for use as or is used for a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley or similar purpose, and for purposes of this Chapter shall include Public Utility Easements, but only to the extent the City has the authority to permit use of the area for this purpose. The term does not include a federal interstate highway or other areas that are not within the legal jurisdiction, ownership or control of the City.
8. Siting means the mounting, installation, maintenance, modification, operation, or replacement of a small wireless facility on or adjacent to any of the following:
A. An existing tower, utility pole, wireless support structure, or other existing structure.
B. A new utility pole of a similar height and appearance as an existing utility pole and which is located within a five-hundred-foot radius of the existing utility pole.
C. A replacement utility pole of a similar height and appearance as an existing utility pole and which is located within a five-hundred-foot radius of the existing utility pole.
9. Small Wireless Facility means either of the following:
A. Micro wireless facilities; or
B. A wireless facility where: (i) each antenna is no more than six (6) cubic feet in volume; and (ii) All other equipment associated with the small wireless facility is cumulatively no more than twenty-eight (28) cubic feet in volume. Volume shall be measured by the external displacement of the primary equipment enclosure, not the internal volume of such enclosure. An associated electric meter, concealment, telecommunications demarcation box, ground-based enclosures, battery backup power systems, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cutoff switch, cable, conduit, and any equipment that is concealed from public view within or behind an existing structure or concealment may be located outside of the primary equipment enclosure and shall not be included in the calculation of the equipment volume. A small wireless facility does not include the structure that supports or houses equipment described in this definition.
10. Structure Height means the vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure. If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades of the cell site shall be used in calculating the height.
11. Tower means a structure built for the sole or primary purpose of supporting an antenna and the associated facilities authorized or licensed by the federal communications commission. Tower includes structures constructed for wireless communications services, including but not limited to private, broadcast, and public safety services and unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services, such as microwave backhaul, and the associated site.
12. Utility Pole means a pole or similar structure owned or utilized in whole or in part by a public utility, municipality, wireless service provider, or electric utility that is designed specifically for and used to carry lines, cable, transmission equipment, or wires for telephone, wireless service, cable television, or electricity service, or for lighting, the vertical portion of support structures for traffic control signals or devices, signage, information kiosks, or other similar functions.
13. Variance or Variation means a grant of relief by the Planning and Zoning Director or his/her designee.
14. Wireless facility(ies) means equipment at a fixed location that enables the transmission of wireless communications or information of any kind between user equipment and a communications network, except that wireless facility does not include coaxial or fiber optic cable that is not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, a particular antenna.