(A) The general purpose of this chapter is to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of towers and WTFs in order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, while at the same time encouraging the development of the competitive wireless telecommunications marketplace in the city.
(B) The specific purposes of this subchapter are:
(1) To allow the location of telecommunication towers and WTFs in the city;
(2) To protect residential areas from potential adverse impact of towers and WTFs;
(3) To minimize adverse visual impact of towers and WTFs through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques;
(4) To promote and encourage shared collocation of towers and antenna support structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single-use towers;
(5) To promote and encourage utilization of technological designs that will either eliminate or reduce the need for erection of new tower structures to support WTFs;
(6) To avoid potential damage to property caused by towers and WTFs by ensuring the structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer used or are determined to be structurally unsound;
(7) To ensure that towers and WTFs are compatible with surrounding land uses;
(8) To overcome the potential adverse impacts that poorly or unregulated towers and WTFs could have on the public health, safety, and welfare; and
(9) Enhance the ability of the providers of telecommunications services to provide the services to the community quickly, effectively, and efficiently.
(Prior Code, § 90.02)