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Prior to action by the Planning Commission, the applicant will have plans and design calculations prepared by a professional engineer licensed in the State of Ohio. The plans are to be submitted with the application. The City shall require a review by an independent registered engineer engaged by the City and paid for by the applicant pursuant to its reimbursement of City expenses pursuant to Section 1140.08. Among other things, the engineer shall review and approve the written certification of the applicant’s engineer filed pursuant to Section 1140.05(i); shall review and approve the applicant’s propagation studies showing the necessity for a location of the tower; and shall review and approve the structural integrity, electrical integrity and electrical safeness of the wireless telecommunication facility in its projected uses so as to assure the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Seven Hills.
(Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
After issuance of a permit to construct a wireless communication facility, the permittee shall begin construction within one hundred eighty (180) days and shall complete construction within three hundred sixty (360) days or the permit and approval shall expire. As a condition of the permit, the Planning Commission shall require the applicant and site owner to certify that if construction is not commenced within one hundred eighty (180) days or completed within three hundred sixty (360) days that the site shall be available for another wireless telecommunications facility. (Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
The applicant shall be responsible for all expenses incurred by the City for any technical engineering services deemed necessary by the Building Commissioner, the City Engineer, Planning Commission, or City Council to perform the reviews required by this Chapter. (Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
The Building Commissioner shall authorize the issuance of permits required by this Chapter and shall collect the fees therefor in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) New wireless communication tower and facility: two thousand dollars ($2,000).
(b) New wireless communication antenna: five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(c) Co-location wireless communication antenna on existing tower or building: five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(d) Annual inspection fee: one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
Wireless communication antennas and/or towers located on City-owned property, by permission of the City Council, shall be exempt from the regulations set forth in this Chapter and any other provisions of the Zoning Code. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this section, if a wireless communication tower is to be located on City-owned property, the tower in all cases shall be subject to a special exception public hearing, notice of which hearing shall be given to all adjacent and affected property owners, the Planning Commission and provided further that the application and proposed type of construction and standards of the proposed tower shall comply with the requirements as set forth in Chapter 1140 of the Building Code. (Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
Whenever any person fails, neglects or refuses to comply with any order of the Building Commissioner, under the provisions of Chapter 1140, or when any building or other structure is used or occupied so as to be in violation of or not in conformity with any provision of Chapter 1140, the Building Commissioner may, in his discretion, institute an appropriate action in law or in equity to restrain the execution and violation of Chapter 1140, to prevent the occupation or use of such building or other structure and to prevent or terminate any violation of Chapter 1140. (Ord. 22-2001. Passed 7-9-01.)
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