(a) “Buffer” means a landscape screen and/or wall that is planted or constructed for the purpose of blocking visual access to the facility from adjacent properties.
(b) “Collocation” means the use of a wireless telecommunication facility by more than one wireless telecommunication provider.
(c) "Lattice tower" means a support structure constructed of vertical metal struts and cross braces forming a triangular or square structure which often tapers from the foundation.
(d) “Monopole” means a structure consisting of a single, self-supporting hollow metal tube securely anchored to a foundation on which wireless telecommunication antenna(e) are mounted.
(e) "Technically suitable" means that the location of a wireless telecommunication antenna or antennae reasonably serves the purpose for which it is intended within the band width of frequencies for which the owner or operator of the antenna or antennae has been licensed by the FCC to operate without a significant loss of communication capability.
(f) “Telecommunications” means the technology which enables information to be exchanged through the transmission of voice, video or data signals by means of electrical or electromagnetic systems. Telecommunication includes, but is not limited to the receiving or transmitting of signals of cellular phones, pagers, personal telecommunication services, or other ground-wired telecommunication systems.
(g) “Wireless Telecommunications Antenna” means the physical device through which electromagnetic, wireless telecommunications signals authorized by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are transmitted or received. These may be placed on the monopole or on a structure. Antennae used by amateur radio operators are exempted from this definition.
(h) “Wireless Telecommunications Equipment Shelter” means the structure in which the electronic receiving and relay equipment for a wireless telecommunication facility is housed.
(i) “Wireless Telecommunication Facility” means a facility containing not more than 2,500 square feet of area measured from the buffer perimeter which includes all of the necessary equipment and structures required for receiving wireless telecommunications signals from a mobile communications source and transmitting those signals to a central switching computer which connects a mobile unit with other mobile units or land based telephone lines. The facility includes the wireless telecommunications tower, wireless telecommunications antennae, equipment shelters, any other apparatus associated with the facility, and the buffer surrounding the shelter,
(j) “Wireless Telecommunications Tower” means a monopole structure intended to support equipment used to transmit and/or receive telecommunications signals. This definition also applies to “lattice-type wireless telecommunication towers” constructed before the effective date of this Ordinance.
(Ord. 45-08. Passed 12-15-08.)