This chapter, governing wireless telecommunication facilities, is established to provide for the construction, erection, maintenance, extension and removal of such facilities. The purpose of this chapter is to balance the competing interests created by the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-104) and the interests of the City of Trotwood in regulating wireless telecommunication towers and related facilities in order to:
(a) Accommodate the need for wireless telecommunication facilities while regulating the location and number of such facilities within the City;
(b) Minimize adverse visual effects of wireless telecommunication facilities and support structures through proper location, design, screening and camouflaging;
(c) Avoid potential damage to adjacent properties from wireless telecommunication facilities and support structures.
(d) Encourage the joint use of new and existing wireless telecommunication facilities and support structures in order to reduce the number of such structures needed in the future.
(e) Require public properties to be considered first for location of wireless telecommunication facilities in order to provide financial benefit to the public from the construction and use of such facilities.
(Ord. 45-08. Passed 12-15-08.)