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In order to ensure that the City’s public safety radio services will be free from harmful or destructive interference, all applicants requesting a permit to site a tower or telecommunications facilities must:
(a) Demonstrate compliance with good engineering practices;
(b) Provide the City a copy of all intermodulation studies submitted to the FCC;
(c) Not induce harmful or destructive interference to the City’s public works and public safety radio services;
(d) Comply with FCC regulations regarding susceptibility to radio frequency interference, frequency coordination requirements, general technical standards for power, antenna, bandwidth limitations, frequency stability, transmitter measurements, operating requirements, and any and all other federal statutory and regulatory requirements relating to radio frequency interference (RFI); and
(e) In the case of co-location of telecommunications facilities either in the same location or on the same tower as the City’s, comply with FCC emissions requirements and eradicate any RFI or any electromagnetic interference (EMI) that may interfere with the City’s public safety radio services.
(Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
(a) All towers in business and industrial zoning districts shall be set back on all sides a distance equal to the underlying setback requirements in the applicable zoning district. All towers in residential zoning districts shall be set back on all sides a distance equal to the tower height.
(b) Setback requirements for towers shall be measured from the base of the tower to the property line of the parcel on which it is located.
(c) Every tower shall be designed to fall within the boundaries of the parcel on which the tower is located. (Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
(a) Towers shall be separated from all residentially zoned lands and all residences (regardless of zoning classification) by a minimum distance equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the height of the proposed tower.
(b) Tower separation distances for the purpose of compliance with this article shall be measured from the base of a tower to the closest point of a designated area. The minimum tower separation distance shall be calculated and applied regardless of City and county jurisdictional boundaries.
(Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
Measurement of tower height for the purpose of determining compliance with all requirements of this article shall include the tower structure itself, the base laid, and any other telecommunications facilities attached thereto which extend over the top of the tower structure itself. Tower height shall be measured from grade.
(Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
Towers shall not be artificially lighted except as required by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”). Upon commencement of construction of a tower, in cases where there are residential uses located within a distance equal to the height of the tower from the tower, and when required by Federal Law, dual mode lighting shall be requested from the FAA.
(Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
All landscaping on parcels containing towers, antenna support structures, or telecommunications facilities shall be designed to screen the tower, antenna support structure, and telecommunications facilities to a height of at least six feet from garde. This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Inspections Division if the base of the tower and facilities to be screened are not located in and not visible from any business or residential districts or visible from public streets. All landscaping must be continually maintained in a healthy and attractive manner.
(Ord. 318. Passed 2-4-08.)
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