The purpose of this article is to provide sound land use policies
and establish guidelines for the siting of wireless telecommunications
towers and antennas and ancillary facilities.
A. To protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse
impacts of towers and antennas;
B. To encourage the location of towers on municipally owned property
where appropriate or in other nonresidential areas;
C. To encourage the location on existing buildings, telecommunication
towers and water towers as opposed to construction of new telecommunications
towers;
D. To encourage users of towers and antennas to locate them, to the
extent possible, in areas where the adverse impact on the community
is minimal;
E. To ensure that all telecommunications facilities, including towers,
antennas and ancillary facilities, are located and designed to minimize
the visual impact on the immediate surroundings and throughout the
community by encouraging developers of towers and antennas to configure
them in a way that minimizes the adverse visual impact of the towers
and antennas through careful design, siting and landscape screening;
and
F. To secure the removal of towers once they become obsolete or unused
for an extended period of time.
Entities seeking approval of new personal wireless telecommunications
facilities shall, in addition to their compliance with existing legal
and regulatory requirements, show that the planned facilities also
comply with the following objectives:
A. To the extent that is practical, use of existing facilities inside
the Township and its immediate vicinity.
B. If such usable facilities exist, then also to the extent that it
is practical, use of facilities that are owned by the Township.
C. If usable existing facilities do not exist, then to the extent that
is practical, use of property owned by the Township.
D. Improvement of opportunities for co-location, by either:
(1) Co-locating on an existing facility; or
(2) Constructing and designing new facilities so as to maximize the opportunity
of co-location for additional providers.
E. Compliance with the co-location policy presented in §
166-54, Co-location policy (both as a new provider before approval and as an existing provider after approval).
F. If a new tower is on lands not owned by the Township of West Deptford,
then they shall be permitted in the M-2 Heavy Manufacturing Zone.