(A) Artificially lighted. Wireless telecommunications facilities shall not be artificially lighted or marked, except as required by federal regulations.
(B) Stealth. All new wireless telecommunications facilities, including but not limited to towers, shall utilize stealth or camouflage techniques and technology, unless such can be shown to be either commercially or technologically impracticable.
(C) Dual mode. In order to minimize the number of antenna arrays and thus the visual impact, the town may require the use of dual mode antennas to be used, including by two different carriers, unless it can be proven that such will not work technologically and that such would have the effect of prohibiting the provision of service in the town.
(D) Finish/color. Structures shall be galvanized and/or painted with a rust-preventive paint of an appropriate color to harmonize with the surroundings and shall be maintained in accordance with the requirements of this section.
(E) Lighting. If lighting is legally required or proposed, the applicant shall provide a detailed plan for sufficient lighting of as unobtrusive and inoffensive an effect as is permissible under state and federal regulations. For any wireless telecommunications facility for which lighting is required under the FAA’s regulations, or that for any reason has lights attached, all such lighting shall be affixed with technology that enables the light to be seen as intended from the air, but that prevents the ground scatter effect so that it not able to be seen from the ground to a height of at least 12 degrees vertical for a distance of at least one mile in a level terrain situation. Such device must be compliant with or not in conflict with FAA regulations. A physical shield may be used, as long as the light is able to be seen from the air, as intended by the FAA.
(F) Modification of lighting. In the event a wireless telecommunications facility that is lighted is modified, at the time of the modification the town may require that the tower be retrofitted with the technology set forth in division (E) of this section.
(G) Flush mounting. All new or replacement antennas, except omni-directional whip antennas, shall be flush-mounted or as close to flush-mounted as is technologically possible on any wireless telecommunications facility, so long as such does not have the effect of prohibiting the provision of service to the intended service area, alone or in combination with another site(s), unless the applicant can prove that it is technologically impracticable.
(H) Placement on building - facie. If attached to a building, all antennas shall be mounted on the facie of the building and camouflaged so as to match the color and, if possible, texture of the building or in a manner so as to make the antennas as visually innocuous and undetectable as is possible given the facts and circumstances involved.
(Ord. O-2007-30IN, passed 12-4-2007)