For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMMUNICATIONS TOWERS. An independent structure of a height more than 35 feet above ground level used for transmitting or receiving wireless communications.
CONTRACTOR. Any person or entity who engages in the placement or construction of any communications tower or wind energy system in the city.
ENGINEER. A registered professional engineer certified under the laws of the state.
METEOROLOGICAL TOWER (MET TOWER). The tower, base plate, anchors, guy cables and hardware, anemometers, wind direction vanes, data logger, instrument wiring, telemetry devices that are used to monitor or transmit wind speed and wind flow characteristics over a period of time, and appurtenances.
TOTAL HEIGHT (OF A WIND ENERGY SYSTEM). The vertical distance from ground level to the tip of a wind generator blade when the tip is at its highest point.
WIND ENERGY SYSTEM. Equipment that converts and then stores or transfers energy from wind into usable forms of energy, including any base, blade, foundation, generator, nacelle, rotor, tower, transformer, vane, wire, inverter, batteries or other components.
(Prior Code, § 8-8-3) (Ord. 487, passed 1-5-1998; Ord. 712, passed 11-1-2010)