A. The general purpose of this chapter is to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of wireless communications facilities in order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, while at the same time not unreasonably interfering with the development of the competitive wireless communications marketplace in the city.
B. Specifically, the purposes of this chapter are:
1. To regulate the location of wireless communications facilities in the city;
2. To protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse impact of towers and other communications facilities;
3. To minimize adverse visual impact of wireless communications facilities through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques;
4. To promote and encourage shared use/collocation of towers and antenna support structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single use wireless communications facilities;
5. To promote and encourage utilization of technological designs that will either eliminate or reduce the need for erection of tower structures to support antenna and communications facilities;
6. To avoid potential damage to property caused by wireless communications facilities by ensuring such structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer used or are determined to be structurally unsound; and
7. To ensure that wireless communications facilities are compatible with surrounding land uses to the greatest extent reasonably possible. (Ord. 2979, 2016: Ord. 2662, 2001)