ANTENNA: | A device used to transmit or receive radio or electromagnetic waves including without limitation panel antennas, reflecting discs, microwave dishes, whip antennas, directional and non-directional antennas consisting of one (1) or more elements, multiple antenna configurations, and other similar devices and configurations, and exterior apparatus designed for telephone, radio, or television communications through the sending or receiving of wireless communications signals. |
APPLICANT: | A person that submits an application to the Town to site, install, construct, collocate, modify or operate a WCF. |
BASE STATION: | A structure or equipment, other than a tower, at a fixed location that enables FCC-licensed or authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including equipment associated with wireless communications services. The term does not encompass a tower as defined in this subpart or any equipment associated with a tower. The term includes, but is not limited to: |
A. Equipment associated with wireless communications services such as private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul. B. Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration (including distributed antenna systems and small-cell networks). C. Any structure other than a tower that, at the time the relevant application is filed with the Town, supports or houses equipment described in subsections (A) through (B) of this section that has been reviewed and approved under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another State or local regulatory review process, even if the structure was not built for the sole or primary purpose of providing such support. The term does not include any structure that, at the time the relevant application is filed with the Town, does not support or house equipment described in subsections (A)-(B) of this section. | |
ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES REQUEST: | A request for approval of the modification of an existing tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower or base station and involves the collocation of new transmission equipment, the removal of transmission equipment or the replacement of transmission equipment. |
EQUIPMENT: | Any antennas and other wireless communications equipment, including without limitation equipment shelters and cabinets, nodes, antennas, fiber optic cable, coaxial cable, wires, frequencies, technology, conduits and pipes, poles, towers and associated and appurtenant equipment necessary to operate the WCF. |
EXISTING: | A constructed tower or base station if it has been reviewed and approved under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another State or local regulatory review process, provided that a tower that has not been reviewed and approved because it was not in a zoned area when it was built, but was lawfully constructed, is existing for purposes of this definition. |
MICRO WIRELESS FACILITY: | A WCF that is no larger in dimensions than twenty-four inches (24") in length, fifteen inches (15") in width, and twelve inches (12") in height and that have an exterior antenna, if any, that is no more than eleven inches (11") in length. |
POLE-MOUNTED FACILITY: | A WCF with antennas that are mounted and supported entirely on a legally existing traffic signal, utility pole, streetlight, flagpole, electric or transmission line support tower or other similar structure. |
ROOF-MOUNTED FACILITY: | A WCF that is mounted and supported entirely on the roof of a legally existing building. |
SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY: | A WCF where each antenna is located inside an enclosure of no more than three (3) cubic feet in volume, or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements that could fit within an imaginary enclosure of no more than three (3) cubic feet; and primary equipment enclosures are not larger than seventeen (17) cubic feet in volume. A micro wireless facility is a type of small wireless facility. |
STEALTH FACILITIES: | A freestanding WCF designed to substantially conceal or camouflage the antennas and associated equipment typified by bell towers, flagpoles, parking lot light poles, clock towers, decorative architectural features, and tree towers. |
TOWER: | A structure that is designed and constructed primarily built for the sole or primary purpose of supporting one (1) or more any FCC-licensed or authorized antennas and their associated facilities, including: structures that are constructed for wireless communications services including without limitation private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul; the associated site; and self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers, radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, and alternative tower structures. |
TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT: | Equipment that facilitates transmission for any FCC-licensed or authorized wireless communication service, including without limitation radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, and regular and backup power supply, and including equipment associated with wireless communication services including without limitation private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul. |
WALL-MOUNTED FACILITY: | Any WCF that is mounted and supported entirely on the wall of a legally existing building, including the walls of architectural features such as parapets, chimneys, and similar appurtenances. |
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY or WCF: | A facility for the provision of wireless services, including a small cell facility, excluding coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is not immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular antenna. (Ord. 558, Series of 2021; amd. Ord. 575, Series of 2022) |