The city desires to promote cleanly organized and streamlined facilities using the smallest and least intrusive means available to provide wireless services to the community. All wireless telecommunications facilities located outside the public rights-of-way must comply with all applicable provisions in this section. In the event that any other law, regulation or code requires any more restrictive design and/or construction requirements, the most restrictive requirement will control.
(A) Preferred locations.
(1) All applicants must, to the extent feasible, propose new wireless telecommunications facilities in locations according to the following preferences, ordered from most preferred to least preferred:
(a) Manufacturing zones;
(b) Commercial zones;
(c) Agricultural zones;
(d) Public facilities zones;
(e) Multiple family zones;
(f) Single family zones.
(2) No new facility may be placed in a less appropriate area unless the applicant demonstrates that no more appropriate location can feasibly serve the area the facility is intended to serve, provided that the city may authorize a facility to be established in a less appropriate location if doing so is necessary to prevent substantial aesthetic impacts.
(B) Preferred support structures. In addition to the preferred locations described in § 157.06(A), the city also expresses its preference for installations on certain support structures. The approval authority will take into account whether a more preferred support structure is technically feasible and potentially available. The city's preferred support structures are as follows, ordered from most preferred to least preferred:
(1) Collocation on an existing non-tower structure;
(2) Collocation on an existing tower;
(3) New installations on existing buildings, utility structures, and other non-tower structures;
(4) New freestanding towers.
(Ord. 1090, passed 9-28-17)