(A) Generally. No tower or support structure that is not a building and is constructed after the effective date of this section shall be tall enough to require lighting by the FAA.
(B) Stealth. All new facilities, including, but not limited to, towers, shall utilize stealth or camouflage siting techniques that are acceptable to the city, unless such can be shown to be either commercially impracticable or technologically impracticable.
(C) Finish/color. Towers 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.
(D) Lighting. Notwithstanding the prohibition of lighting, in the event lighting is subsequently required by the FAA, 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 facility or complex 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 is not able to be seen from the ground to a height of at least 20 degrees vertical for a distance of at least one mile in a level terrain situation. Such device shall be compliant with or not expressly 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.
(E) Retrofitting. In the event a tower or other support structure that is lighted as of the effective date of this section is modified, at the time of the first modification of the facility the city reserves the right to require that the tower be retrofitted so as to comply with the lighting requirements of this section or be reduced to a height that does not require lighting.
(F) Flush-mounting. Except for omni-directional antennas, all new or replacement antennas, shall be flush-mounted or as close to flush-mounted on the support structure as is functionally possible, unless it can be demonstrated by clear and convincing technical evidence that such has the effect of prohibiting the provision of service to the intended service area, alone or in combination with another site(s), or unless the applicant can prove that it is technologically impracticable.
(G) Placement on building. If attached to a building, all antennas shall be mounted on the fascia of the building and camouflaged so as to match the color and, if possible, the 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. 2016-4-26-38, passed 4-26-2016)