A. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents and visitors of the City of Sacramento; establish reasonable and uniform standards and procedures for the deployment, construction, installation, colocation, modification, operation, maintenance, relocation, and removal on city-owned property, of personal wireless service facilities, consistent with and to the extent permitted under federal and state law; retain the aesthetic character of the city; and ensure that residents, visitors, businesses, and government services in the city have reliable access to state-of-the-art wireless telecommunications networks.
B. This chapter is not intended to, and shall not be interpreted to:
1. Prohibit or effectively prohibit any telecommunications provider's ability to provide personal wireless services;
2. Prohibit or effectively prohibit any telecommunications provider's ability to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service, subject to any competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory rules or regulations;
3. Unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent services;
4. Deny any request to place, construct, or modify personal wireless service facilities based on environmental or health effects of radio frequency emissions if those facilities comply with the FCC's regulations concerning emissions;
5. Prohibit any co-location or modification that the city does not have discretion to deny under federal or state law; or
6. Otherwise conflict with any applicable federal or state law or regulation. (Ord. 2020-0018 § 2)