This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Telecommunications
Tower Law of the Town of Stockport, Columbia County, State of New
York."
This chapter regulates the location, construction, alteration
and use of telecommunications towers and personal wireless service
facilities within the Town of Stockport.
The purpose of regulating telecommunications towers, antennas
and personal wireless facilities and towers is to:
A.
Preserve the character and appearance of the Town of Stockport while
allowing adequate personal wireless services to be developed.
B.
Protect the scenic, historic, environmental, and natural or man-made
resources of the community.
C.
Provide standards and requirements for the regulation, placement,
design, appearance, construction, monitoring, modification and removal
of personal wireless service facilities.
D.
Establish a systematic review process that ensures action within
a reasonable period of time for requests for authorization to place,
construct, operate or modify personal wireless service facilities.
E.
Preserve property values.
F.
Minimize the total number and height of towers and antennas throughout
the community, consistent with the need to provide adequate service.
G.
Locate towers and antennas so that they will not create an attractive
nuisance, noise, or harm from falling objects, and otherwise will
not have any other potential adverse impact on property values, the
health, safety, welfare and quality of life in the community.
H.
Require owners of towers and personal wireless service facilities
to configure them so as to minimize the mitigate the adverse visual
impact of the towers and facilities.
I.
Require tower sharing and the clustering of personal wireless service
facilities where feasible.
