Ordinance 2018-1763 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Alternative Tower Structure means an existing or proposed wireless facility that is compatible with the natural setting and surrounding structures and that uses camouflage and concealment design techniques to significantly reduce the visual impacts of such facilities and can be used to house or mount antenna. Examples include manmade trees, clock towers, bell steeples, Tight poles, traffic signals, existing utility poles and transmission towers. Antenna means an exterior transmitting or receiving device used in communications that radiates or captures wireless signals. Base Station means a structure or equipment at a fixed location that enables Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -licensed or authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications structure. The definition of base station does not include or encompass a tower as defined herein or any equipment associated with a tower. Base station includes: 1. Equipment associated with wireless communications services such as private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul that, at the time the relevant application is filed with the City under this Chapter, has been reviewed and approved by the City under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another State or local regulatory review process, even if the structure was not built for the sole or primary purpose of providing such support. 2. Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration (including Distributed Antenna Systems ("DAS") and small -cell networks) that, at the time the relevant application is filed with the City under this Chapter, has been reviewed and approved by the City under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another State or local regulatory review process, even if the structure was not built for the sole or primary purpose of providing such support. The definition of base station does not include any structure that, at the time the relevant application is filed with the City under this section, does not support or house equipment described in subparagraph 2, above. Camouflage and Concealment Design Techniques means measures used in the design and siting of wireless facilities with the intent to significantly reduce the visual impacts of such facilities to surrounding uses so that the presence of the wireless communications facility is not readily apparent. A wireless facility utilizes camouflage and concealment design techniques when: 1. The facility is integrated within, or incorporated on, an architectural feature of an existing structure, such as a tower, clock tower, bell steeple, cupola, penthouse, architectural feature or other similar structure and is not readily apparent; 2. The facility is integrated within, or incorporated on, vertical infrastructure Ordinance No. 1763, Series 2018 Page 3 of 18