The county shall apply these regulations to accomplish the following:
A. Minimize adverse visual effects of telecommunication towers, antennas and related facilities through design and siting standards.
B. Maintain and ensure that a nondiscriminatory, competitive and broad range of telecommunications services and high quality telecommunications infrastructure consistent with the federal telecommunications act of 1996 are provided to serve the community.
C. Provide a process for obtaining necessary permits for telecommunications facilities while at the same time protecting the interests of the Power County citizens.
D. Protect environmentally sensitive areas of Power County by regulating the location, design and operation of telecommunication facilities.
E. Encourage the use of alternative support structures, colocation of new antennas on existing telecommunication towers, camouflaged towers, and construction of towers with the ability to locate more than one provider.
Furthermore, this chapter is not intended to regulate residential satellite dishes or residential television antennas that are used privately. Additionally it is not intended to regulate satellite dishes/antennas whose regulation is prohibited by Idaho statutes or as preempted by federal law. (Ord. 2002-02, 4-1-2002)