In order to ensure that the placement, construction and modification of wireless telecommunications facilities protects the town’s health, safety, public welfare, environmental features, the nature and character of the community and neighborhood and other aspects of the quality of life specifically listed elsewhere in this subchapter, the town hereby adopts an overall policy with respect to a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities for the express purpose of achieving the following goals:
(A) Implementing an application process for person(s) seeking a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities;
(B) Establishing a policy for reviewing and analyzing an application for, and issuing, a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities that is both fair and consistent;
(C) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, alternatives to constructing new towers, including, but not limited to, the co-location of wireless telecommunications facilities and mitigating the visual effect of a wireless telecommunications facility to extent not commercially impracticable;
(D) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of wireless telecommunications facilities in such a manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology or camouflage techniques, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area as the requested location of such wireless telecommunications facilities, which shall mean using the least visually and physically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and circumstances; and
(E) Assuring that any wireless telecommunications facilities are designed and constructed so as to be structurally sound and otherwise safe.
(Ord. passed 4-5-2010; Ord. passed 5-3-2021)