(A) Placement of wireless telecommunications facilities, such as antennas, satellite dishes, support structures, base transceiver stations and other devices used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves can have an adverse visual impact on the community. Placement of the facilities can interfere with views of the streetscape, natural vegetation and scenery. The facilities can conflict with adjacent architecture and with the design and the scale of structures in the neighborhood. The cumulative effect of numerous facilities and support structures can create a visual blight by concentrating too many facilities upon one site, area or neighborhood.
(B) In order to protect the public health, safety and welfare, it is necessary to insure that the siting of telecommunications facilities is compatible in design and scale with its locale and is sited so as to minimize adverse visual impacts on natural resources, neighborhoods, vistas, view corridors, architecture and structures.
(C) Facilities (geographic location or physical location) on structures, which already have similar installations (co-location sites), appear less noticeable, up to the point where too many structures create a visual blight. Installations on commercial or industrial structures are generally more compatible with and less noticeable than installations on residential structures due to the design, scale and locations of the structures.
(D) Therefore, in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare, it is necessary to adopt the following regulations which will avoid or minimize these impacts and will insure the proper design, location and scale of wireless telecommunications facilities.
(1966 Code, § 34-2) (Ord. 762, § 1(part), 2003)