As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
APPLICANT
Any entity or person that applies for a wireless communications
facility building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use
the public right-of-way, Township-owned land, or other property.
CO-LOCATION
The mounting of one or more telecommunications antennas,
on an existing telecommunications tower, or on any structure that
has been approved by the Township to support at least one telecommunications
antenna.
EMERGENCY
A condition that 1) constitutes a clear and immediate danger
to the health, welfare, or safety of the public, or 2) has caused
or is likely to cause facilities in the rights-of-way to be unusable
and result in loss of the services provided.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
HEIGHT OF A TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER
The vertical distance measured from the ground level, including
any base pad, to the highest point on a telecommunications tower,
including telecommunications antennas mounted on the tower and any
other appurtenances.
RELATED EQUIPMENT
Any piece of equipment related to, incidental to, or necessary
for, the operation of a telecommunications tower or "telecommunications
antenna. By way of illustration, not limitation, "related equipment"
includes generators and base stations.
SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY (SWF)
The equipment and network components, including antennas,
transmitters and receivers, used by a wireless provider that meet
the following qualifications:
A.
Each antenna associated with the deployment is no more than
three cubic feet in volume.
B.
The volume of all other equipment associated with the wireless
facility, whether ground-mounted or pole-mounted, is cumulatively
no more than 28 cubic feet. Any equipment used solely for the concealment
of the small wireless facility shall not be included in the calculation
of equipment volume under this definition.
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications facilities
which render them more visually appealing or blend the proposed facility
into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as
to render it minimally visible to the casual observer. Such methods
include, but are not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted
antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to match the existing
structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, flagpoles,
and light poles.
SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGE or SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE
A modification to an existing wireless communications facility
that changes the physical dimensions of a telecommunications tower
or base station if it meets any of the following criteria:
A.
For a telecommunications tower outside the public rights-of-way:
(1)
It increases the height of the facility by more than 10% or
by the height of one additional antenna array with separation from
the nearest existing antenna, not to exceed 20 feet, whichever is
greater;
(2)
It protrudes from the edge of the wireless communications facility
by more than 20 feet, or more than the width of the tower structures
at the level of the appurtenance, whichever is greater.
B.
For a telecommunications tower in the public rights-of-way:
(1)
It increases the height of the facility by more than 10% or
10 feet, whichever is greater;
(2)
It protrudes from the edge of the structure by more than six
feet;
(3)
It involves installation of more than the standard number of
new equipment cabinets for the technology involved, but not to exceed
four cabinets;
(4)
It entails any excavation of deployment outside the current
site of the telecommunications tower; or
(5)
It does not comply with conditions associated with prior approval
of construction or modification of the telecommunications tower unless
the noncompliance is due to an increase in height, increase in width,
or addition of cabinets.
SWFDA
Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA
Any antenna and related equipment attached to a wireless
support structure. Telecommunications antennas shall not include support
structures for antennas or any related equipment that is mounted to
the ground or at ground-level. "Telecommunication antenna" shall include
SWF.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER
Any structure that is constructed for the primary purpose
of supporting one or more telecommunications antennas, including but
not limited to, self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers, monopoles,
and utility poles. Distributed antenna system hub facilities are considered
to be telecommunications towers.
WBCA
Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S.
§ 11702.1 et seq.).
WIRELESS
Transmissions through the airwaves including, but not limited
to, infrared line of sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or
radio signals.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (WCF)
The antennas, nodes, control boxes, towers, poles, conduits,
ducts, pedestals, electronics and other equipment used for the purpose
of transmitting, receiving, distributing, providing, or accommodating
wireless communications services. WCF shall include small wireless
facilities.
WIRELESS SUPPORT STRUCTURE
A freestanding structure, such as a telecommunications tower
or any other support structure that could support the placement or
installation of a wireless communications facility, if approved by
the Township.