The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(a) “Antenna” means any exterior transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower or antenna support structure and used in communications that radiate or capture electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals), wireless telecommunications signals or other communication signals.
(b) “Antenna Support Structure” means any structure other than a tower which is at least fifty feet in height and can be used for location of telecommunications facilities.
(c) “Applicant” means any person applying for a permit to place or operate a telecommunications facility in the City.
(d) “Application” means the process by which the owner of a property within the City submits a request to develop, construct, build, modify, or erect a telecommunication facility upon such property. Application includes all written documentation, verbal statements, and representations, in whatever form or forum, made by the Applicant to the City concerning such a request.
(e) “Engineer” means any engineer licensed by the State of Ohio.
(f) “Micro Antenna” means any antenna which consists solely of the antenna and which does not have any supporting structures other than brackets. Micro antennas shall be no greater than five feet in height and shall have an area not more than 580 square inches.
(g) “Owner” means any person with fee title or a long-term (exceeding ten years) leasehold to any property within the City who desires to develop, construct, build, modify or erect a telecommunications facility upon such property.
(h) “Person” means any natural person, association, company or other legal entity, private or public, whether for profit or not for profit.
(i) “Stealth” means any tower or telecommunications facility which is designed to enhance compatibility with adjacent land uses, including, but not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, antennas integrated into architectural elements, and towers designed to look other than like a tower, such as man-made trees, light poles, power poles, and similar alternative-design mounting structures.
(j) “Support Structures” means any building or structure accessory to but necessary for the proper functioning of an antenna or tower.
(k) “Telecommunication Facilities” means any plant, equipment, and property, including but not limited to cables, wires, pedestals, wave guides, antennas, towers, alternative tower structures, electronics and other appurtenances associated with the transmission, reception, distribution, provision or offering of telecommunications services.
(1) “Tower” means any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term “tower” includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and other similar structures but does not include hobby-related communications facilities located in residential districts (i.e. Ham radio towers). The term “tower” also includes any antenna or antenna array attached to the tower structure.
(m) “Tower height” means the measurement from the ground surface below the base to the top of the tower itself or, if higher, to the top of the highest antenna or piece of equipment attached thereto. In the case of building mounted towers, the height of the tower includes the height of the portion of the building on which the tower is mounted.
(Ord. 98-132. Passed 9-28-98.)