§ 17.52.015. Purposes.

A.

The general purpose of this ordinance is to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of wireless telecommunications towers and facilities in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public, while at the same time encouraging the development of the competitive wireless telecommunications marketplace in the City.

B.

The specific purposes of this ordinance are:

1.

To allow the location of wireless telecommunication towers and facilities in the City;

2.

To protect residential zones from potential adverse impact of towers and telecommunications facilities;

3.

To minimize adverse visual impact of towers and telecommunications facilities through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques;

4.

To promote and encourage shared use/co-location of towers and antenna support structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single-use towers;

5.

To promote and encourage utilization of technological designs that will either eliminate or reduce the need for erection of new tower structures to support antenna and telecommunications facilities;

6.

To avoid potential damage to property caused by towers and telecommunications facilities by ensuring such structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer used or are determined to be structurally unsound;

7.

To ensure that towers and telecommunications facilities are compatible with surrounding land uses; and

8.

To overcome the potential adverse impacts that poorly or unregulated telecommunications facilities could have on the public health, safety and welfare.

(Ord. 3548 § 23, 1/5/2016; Ord. 3089 § 1 (part), 6/29/2001)