949.01 PURPOSE AND GOALS.

   The purpose of this chapter is to establish general procedures, rules, and standards, consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local laws for the siting, construction, installation, collocation, modification, operation, and removal of small cell facilities and wireless support structures in the City's public way.

   This chapter intends to:

   (a)   Establish basic criteria for requests to locate small cell facilities and wireless support structures in the public way and to authorize the Director of Administration or his or her designee to develop, publish, and from time to time amend the Design Guidelines, the Facility License Agreement, and other associated materials to provide clear information to applicants;

   (b)   Ensure that small cell facilities and wireless support structures are carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer in use in conformance with all applicable health and safety regulations;

   (c)    Preserve the character of the City of Wooster by minimizing the potentially adverse visual impact of small cell facilities and wireless support structures through careful design, siting, landscaping and camouflaging techniques to blend these facilities into their environment to the maximum extent practicable;

   (d)    Enhance the ability of wireless communications carriers to deploy small cell facilities and wireless support structures in the City quickly, effectively, and efficiently so that residents, businesses, and visitors benefit from ubiquitous and robust wireless service availability;

   (e)    Establish an application and work permit process and structure for payment of fees and charges to be uniformly applied to all applicants, operators, and owners of small cell facilities and wireless support structures for such facilities;

   (f)    Comply with, and not conflict with or preempt, all applicable state and federal laws, including without limitation Section 101(a) and Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act, Pub. L. 104-104, 101 Stats. 56, 70 (Feb. 8, 1996) (codified as 47 U.S.C. §§ 253(a), 332(c)(7)), as may be amended or superseded, and Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, Pub. L. 112-96, 126 Stat. 156 (Feb. 22, 2012) (codified as 47 U.S.C. § 1455(a)), as may be amended or superseded, and all FCC rules and regulations to interpret and implement applicable federal statutes.

      (Ord. 2018-013. Passed 7-2-18.)