Terms defined.
ACCESSORY FACILITY OR STRUCTURE
An accessory facility or structure serving or being used
in conjunction with wireless telecommunications facilities and located
on the same property or lot as the wireless telecommunications facilities,
including but not limited to, utility or transmission equipment storage
sheds or cabinets.
APPLICANT
Any person submitting an application to the Town of Chenango
for a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities.
APPLICATION
The form approved by the Board, together with all necessary
and appropriate documentation, that an applicant submits in order
to receive a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities.
ANTENNA
A system of electrical conductors that transmits or receives
electromagnetic waves or radio frequency signals. Such waves shall
include but not be limited to radio, television, cellular, paging,
personal telecommunications services (PCS) and microwave telecommunications.
BOARD
The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Chenango.
COLLOCATION
The use of the same telecommunications tower or structure
to carry two or more antennas for the provision of wireless services
by two or more persons or entities.
COMPLETED APPLICATION
An application that contains all information and/or data
necessary to enable the Board to evaluate the merits of the application
and to make an informed decision with respect to the effect and impact
of wireless telecommunications facilities on the Town in the context
of the permitted land use for the particular location requested.
EAF
The environmental assessment form approved by the New York
Department of Environmental Conservation (Appendix A to 6 NYCRR 617.20)
and includes a visual EAF addendum (Appendix B).
EPA
The State and/or Federal Environmental Protection Agency
or its duly assigned successor agency.
FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration or its duly designated
and authorized successor agency.
FCC
The Federal Communications Commission or its duly designated
and authorized successor agency.
FREESTANDING TOWER
A tower that is not supported by guy wires and ground anchors
or other means of attached or external support.
HEIGHT
When referring to a tower or structure, the distance measured
from the preexisting grade level to the highest point on the tower
or structure, even if said highest point is an antenna.
NIER
Nonionizing electromagnetic radiation.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership,
joint-stock company, association of two or more persons having a joint
common interest or any other entity.
SPECIAL USE PERMIT
The official document or permit by which an applicant is
allowed to construct and use wireless telecommunications facilities,
as granted or issued by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
STATE
The State of New York.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The transmission and reception of audio, video, data and
other information by wire, radio frequency, light and other electronic
or electromagnetic systems.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE
A structure used in the provision of services described in
the definition of "wireless telecommunications facilities."
TEMPORARY
In relation to all aspects and components of this chapter,
something intended to, or that does, exist for fewer than 90 days.
TOWN
The Town of Chenango, New York.
TOWN BOARD
The legislative body of the Town of Chenango.
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES or TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TOWER or TELECOMMUNICATIONS SITE or PERSONAL WIRELESS FACILITY
A structure, facility or location designed or intended to
be used as or used to support, antennas. It includes, without limit,
freestanding towers, guyed towers, monopoles, and similar structures
that employ camouflage technology, including but not limited to structures
such as a multistory building, church steeple, silo, water tower,
sign or other similar structures intended to mitigate the visual impact
of an antenna or the functional equivalent of such. It is a structure
intended for transmitting and/or receiving radio, television, cellular,
paging, 911, personal telecommunications services, commercial satellite
services or microwave telecommunications, but excluding those used
exclusively for the Town's fire, police and other dispatch telecommunications,
or exclusively for private radio and television reception and private
citizen's bands, amateur radio and other similar telecommunications.