(a) Wireless Telecommunications Facilities shall be a conditional use in the I1 and I2 zoning districts contingent upon a number of requirements being met. These criteria are in place in an attempt to minimize adverse health, safety, public welfare or visual impacts through buffering, siting, design and construction, and reduction of the need for new Towers.
(b) Application Requirements. In addition to the requirements of Section 1138.06
(b) the following additional information shall be provided.
(1) A plot plan indicating all building uses within 200 feet of the proposed facility. Aerial photos and/or renderings may be required.
(2) A diagram or map showing the viewshed of the proposed Wireless Telecommunications Facilities or Antenna Support Structure.
(3) Photo simulations of the proposed facility from effected residential properties and public rights-of-way at varying distances.
(4) A list of the location of every Tower, building, or structure within the area that could support the proposed antenna. The applicant must show that it has pursued a reasonable shared use arrangement with the owner(s) of the existing towers and that such pursuit was unsuccessful.
(c) Standards.
(1) The Tower and Equipment Shelter shall be 1,000 feet from the nearest residential district or public park.
(2) The maximum size of the Equipment Shelter shall not exceed 400 square feet.
(3) Minimum setback for the Tower from all property lines shall be a distance equal to the height of the tower. Setback shall be defined as the distance from the property line to the nearest portion of the structure. The Equipment Shelter shall meet the minimum setback requirements of the appropriate district.
(4) Underground wiring to the site shall be required.
(5) Equipment, mobile or immobile, not used in direct support of the transmission or relay facility, shall not be stored or parked on the site except in connection with a repair or maintenance being made to the installation.
(6) The owner of the tower shall annually file with the Zoning Inspector a declaration ascertaining the continued operations, according to the Board of Zoning Appeal's approval, of each tower approved.
(7) Obsolete or unused facilities shall be removed within six months of ceasing operation.
(8) No employees shall be employed on a regular basis at the installation site.
(9) The location of the Tower and Equipment Shelter and Antenna Support Structure shall comply with all natural resource protection standards established in the Zoning Code.
(10) Security fencing eight (8) feet in height shall be required to surround the Tower, Equipment Shelter and any guy wires, either completely or individually as determined by the Board of Zoning Appeals. No barbed or razor wire shall be permitted. The Village and co-locators shall have reasonable access. No fence shall be required on top of a building or other structure if access to the roof or top of the structure or building is secure.
(11) Buffer plantings shall be located around the perimeter of the security fence as deemed appropriate by the Board of Zoning Appeals. Options are an evergreen screen to be planted that consists of either a hedge, planted three feet on center maximum, or a row of evergreen trees planted five feet on center maximum, or other screens determined to be appropriate by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(12) Existing vegetation (trees and shrubs) shall be preserved to the maximum extent possible.
(13) Compliance with co-location requirements.
(14) The Tower shall be painted a non-contrasting gray or similar color minimizing its visibility, unless otherwise required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Except for Tower or Monopole structures, all appurtenances shall be aesthetically and architecturally compatible with the surrounding environment.
(15) No advertising is permitted anywhere on the Wireless Telecommunications Facility, with the exception of identification signage.
(16) No Tower under 150 feet shall be artificially lighted except to assure safety or as required by the FAA.
(17) "No Trespassing" signs shall be posted around the Wireless Telecommunications Facility with a telephone number of who to contact in the event of an emergency.
(18) Underground Equipment Shelters are encouraged, and may be requested by the Board of Zoning Appeals.
(19) Towers must be designed and certified by an Engineer to be structurally sound and, at a minimum, in conformance with the Ohio Basic Building Code.
(20) Any Wireless Telecommunications Facilities which are not attached to a Tower shall be a permitted ancillary use to any commercial, industrial, or professional structure, regardless of the zoning restrictions applicable to the zoning district where the structure is located and a Zoning Permit shall be required and issued provided that the person making such ancillary use files a written certification with the Village establishing the following:
A. The total height of the Antenna Support Structure and Wireless Telecommunications Facilities do not exceed the structural height limitations in the applicable zoning district by more than twenty feet;
B. The Antenna Support Structure and Wireless Telecommunications Facilities comply with the Ohio Basic Building Code;
C. Any Wireless Telecommunications Facilities and their appurtenances, located on the roof of a building, are set back one foot from the edge of the roof, not including the penthouse, for each one foot in height of the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities. However, this setback requirement shall not apply to antennas less than two inches in thickness, which are mounted to the sides of Antenna Support Structures, but which do not protrude more than six inches from the side of such an Antenna Support Structure.
D. That the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities will utilize camouflaging techniques or will be side-mounted to an Antenna Support Structure in order that the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities harmonize with the character and environment of the area in which they are located.
(d) No new Tower shall be constructed in the Village unless such Tower is capable of accommodating at least one additional Wireless Telecommunications Facility owned by other Persons. (Ord. 05-08. Passed 2-25-08.)