A. When a permit for a personal wireless services facility is denied or will not meet the requirements of section 12.14.160, the applicant may request an exception.
B. The director may grant a permit exception for a wireless facility if the director finds all of the following:
1. The proposed facility qualifies as a personal wireless service facility;
2. The applicant has provided the city with a reasonable and clearly defined technical service objective to be achieved by the proposed facility;
3. The applicant has provided the city with a written, detailed, and fact-specific statement demonstrating that the proposed facility cannot be deployed in compliance with the applicable provisions in this chapter, the telecommunication facility standards, and other applicable provisions of this code;
4. The applicant has provided the city with a meaningful comparative analysis with the factual reasons why all alternative locations and designs identified by the applicant or the city are neither technically feasible nor potentially available to reasonably achieve the technical service objective; and
5. The applicant has demonstrated that the proposed location and design is the least non-compliant configuration that reasonably achieves the stated technical service objective of the proposed facility. (Ord. 2020-0018 § 2)