Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have
the meaning and usages indicated:
ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT
Any equipment serving or being used in conjunction with a
wireless facility.
AGL
Above ground level. Ground level shall be determined by the
average elevation of the natural ground level with a radius of fifty
(50) feet from the center location of measurement.
ANTENNA
Any device used in the provision of wireless communication
services that transmits and/or receives radio waves for voice, data
or video communications purposes, including, but not limited to, television,
AM/FM radio, microwave, cellular telephone and similar forms of communications.
The term shall exclude satellite earth station antennas less than
(2) meters in diameter (mounted with twelve (12) feet of the ground
or building-mounted) and any receive-only home television antennas.
CABINET
A structure for the protection and security of communications
equipment associated with one (1) or more antennas where direct access
to equipment is provided from the exterior and that has horizontal
dimensions that do not exceed four (4) feet by six (6) feet, and vertical
height that does not exceed six (6) feet.
DIRECTOR
The Director of Community Development of the City or his/her
designee.
DISGUISED SUPPORT STRUCTURE
Any free-standing, man-made structure designed for the support
of antennae, the presence of which is camouflaged or concealed as
an appropriately-placed and designed architectural or natural feature.
Depending on the location and type of disguise used, such concealment
may require placement underground of the utilities leading to the
structure. Such structures may include but are not limited to clock
towers, campaniles, observation towers, light standards, flag poles
and artificial trees. For purposes of this definition, a structure
"camouflaged or concealed as an appropriately-placed and designed
architectural or natural feature" shall meet the following additional
criteria: (1) it is consistent with, contributes to, and does not
detract from the character and property values and use of the area
and neighborhood in which it is located, (2) it does not contain distorted
proportions, size, or other features not typically found on the type
of structure or feature to which it is designed to replicate, (3)
it cannot be identified as an antenna support structure by a person
with reasonable sensibilities and knowledge, (4) its equipment, accessory
buildings, or other aspects or attachments relating to the disguised
support structure are wholly concealed using a manner consistent with
and typically associated with the architectural or natural structure
or feature being replicated, and (5) it is of a height, design and
type that would ordinarily occur at the location and neighborhood
selected. Any disguised support structure shall have as a condition
of approval, unless expressly exempted in the approval, an obligation
and corresponding covenant recorded on the property that runs with
the land to the benefit of the City on behalf of the public, prohibiting
modification of the disguised support structure that eliminate or
are materially detrimental to the disguise, unless such approved by
a duly authorized zoning or conditional use approval approved in the
same manner as required for an original construction of such disguised
support structure with the proposed modification. If the applicant
does not wish to have such covenant, the structure shall not qualify
as a disguised support structure, unless another mechanism is proposed
and approved to ensure that the disguise is not subsequently eliminated
or materially, determinately altered.
EXISTING STRUCTURE
Any structure capable of supporting wireless facilities (other
than a support structure) in full conformance with the design and
other requirements of this Article and is: (1) existing prior to the
date of all applicable permit applications seeking City authorization
for installation of such facilities thereon, and (2) not built or
installed in anticipation of such specific installation or erected
as a means to evade approvals applicable to a non-existing structure.
FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration.
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission.
HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average grade of
the base of the structure at ground level to its highest point and
including the main structure and all attachments thereto.
INCIDENTAL USE
Any use authorized herein that exists in addition to the
principal use of the property.
LATTICE TOWER
A guyed or self-supporting three (3) or four (4) sided, open,
steel frame structure used to support communications equipment.
MODIFICATION
Any addition, deletion, or change, including the addition
or replacement of antennae, or any change to a structure requiring
a building permit or other governmental approval.
MONOPOLE TOWER
A tower consisting of a single pole, constructed without
guy wires and ground anchors.
PUBLIC PROPERTY
Any real property, easement, right-of-way, air space or other
interest in real estate, including a street, owned or controlled by
the City or any other governmental unit.
SHELTER
A building for the protection and security of communications
equipment associated with one (1) or more antennae and where access
to equipment is gained from the interior of the building. Human occupancy
for office or other uses or the storage of other materials and equipment
not in direct support of the connected antennas is prohibited.
TOWER
A structure constructed as a freestanding structure or in
association with a building, other permanent structure or equipment
designed for the support of one (1) or more antennas intended for
transmitting or receiving television, AM/FM radio, digital, microwave,
or similar forms of wireless communications, including, but not limited
to, guyed towers, radio and television transmission towers, microwave
towers, self-supporting (lattice) towers, or monopoles but not disguised
support structures or buildings. The term shall also not include any
support structure including attachments of sixty-five (65) feet or
less in height owned and operated solely for use by an amateur radio
operator licensed by the Federal Communication Commission.
WIRELESS FACILITY
Any antenna, support structure, roof and/or building mount
facility, or telecommunications tower used for communications purposes,
and its accessory equipment.