“Antenna” means any exterior transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure and used in communications that radiates or captures electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals), wireless telecommunications signals or other communication signals.

“Base station” means a structure or equipment at a fixed location that enables FCC licensed or authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network. The term does not encompass a tower or any equipment associated with a tower.

“Camouflage” means a palette of techniques used to disguise, hide and conceal a wireless service facility from public view by blending its appearance into elements of the visual background. The term connotes the use of paint, landscaping, building materials and artificial screens in patterns that merge with the elements in the background environment.

“Colocation,” for the purposes of eligible facilities requests, means the placement or installation of wireless facilities on existing structures that include a wireless facility or a wireless support structure, including water towers and other buildings or structures. The term includes the placement, replacement, or modification of wireless facilities within an approved equipment compound.

“Colocation,” for the purpose of applications to site small wireless facilities and other wireless facilities, excluding eligible facilities requests, means:

“Director” means the Director of Planning, Community, and Economic Development.

“Electrical transmission tower” means a structure that physically supports high-voltage overhead power lines. The term does not include a utility pole.

“Eligible facilities request” or “EFR” means any request for modification of an existing tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimension of such tower or base station, involving:

“Eligible support structure” means any tower or base station; provided, that it exists at the time the relevant EFR application is filed with the state or local government.

“Equipment cabinet” means an enclosure that is mounted above base flood elevation or placed on a concrete slab that contains improvements, personal property, and facilities to operate its wireless services, including: radio receivers, transmitters, related facilities, and/or related cables and utility lines, location-based power sources, the electrical meter and any other necessary equipment.

“Equipment shelter” means an enclosed structure, shed or box at the base of a mount to store improvements, personal property, and facilities to operate its wireless services, including: radio receivers, transmitters, related facilities, and/or cabinets, related cables and utility lines, location-based power sources, the electrical meter and any other necessary equipment.

“Existing.” Any tower or base station is existing for purposes of this chapter if it has been reviewed and approved under the applicable zoning or siting process, or under another state or local regulatory review process; provided, that a tower that has not been reviewed and approved because it was not permitted when it was built, but was lawfully constructed, is existing for purposes of this chapter.

“Facilities” means all of the towers, equipment, fixtures, antennas, equipment cabinets, equipment shelters, and other appurtenances necessary to furnish and deliver wireless services, including but not limited to utility poles and monopoles with cross arms or without cross arms, wires, lines, conduits, cables, communication and signal lines and equipment, braces, guys, anchors, vaults, and all attachments, appurtenances, and appliances necessary or incidental to the distribution and use of wireless services. Facilities include “small wireless facilities” as defined in subsection S of this section.

“FCC” or “Federal Communications Commission” means the federal agency, or its lawful successor, authorized to regulate and oversee wireless telecommunications carriers, services and providers.

“Lattice tower” means a type of mount that is self-supporting with multiple legs and cross bracing of structural steel.

“Monopole” means a type of mount that is self-supporting with a single shaft of wood, steel or concrete and a platform or racks for panel antennas arrayed at the top. A monopole includes self-supporting mounts that provide light (or light poles).

“Public street” means any highway, street, road, alley or other public way for motor vehicle travel within the city and under the jurisdiction and control of the city which has been acquired, established, dedicated or devoted to street purposes.

“Right(s)-of-way” means all public streets and associated property granted or reserved for, or dedicated to, public use for street purposes, together with public property granted or reserved for, or dedicated to, public use for walkways, sidewalks, bikeways and horse trails, whether improved or unimproved, including any air rights, subsurface rights or easements related thereto.

“Service provider” means every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, firm, partnership, person, city, town, or other legal entity owning, operating, or managing any facilities used to provide and providing wireless telecommunications services for hire, sale, or resale to the general public. Service provider includes the legal successor to any such corporation, company, association, joint stock association, firm, partnership, person, city, town, or other legal entity.

“Site” means the current boundaries of the leased or owned property surrounding the facility and any access or utility easements currently related to the site, and for other eligible support structures, further restricted to that area in proximity to the structure and to other transmission equipment already deployed on the ground.

“Small wireless facility” encompasses facilities that meet the following conditions:

The facilities—

Each antenna associated with the deployment, excluding associated antenna equipment, is no more than three cubic feet in volume;

All other wireless equipment associated with the structure, including the wireless equipment associated with the antenna and any preexisting associated equipment on the structure, is no more than 28 cubic feet in volume;

The facilities do not require antenna structure registration under federal law;

The facilities are not located on tribal lands, where tribal lands means all lands within the exterior boundaries of any Indian reservation and all dependent Indian communities; and

The facilities do not result in human exposure to radio-frequency radiation in excess of the applicable safety standards specified under federal law pertaining to wireless facilities.

“Stealthing” means designing facilities to be architecturally incorporated into the surrounding community’s environs while minimizing aesthetic impacts. Examples of stealthing include, but are not limited to, steeples, windmills, water towers, flagpoles, light poles, or chimneys.

“Telecommunications” means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.

“Tower” means any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio, and similar communication purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like. The term includes the structure and any support thereto.

“Transmission equipment” means equipment that disseminates information by wire, radio, optic cable, electromagnetic, or similar means for any FCC licensed or authorized wireless telecommunication service, including, but not limited to, radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, and regular and backup power supply. The term includes equipment associated with wireless telecommunications services including, but not limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as microwave backhaul.

“Utility pole” means a pole privately owned or installed by a utility company for the purpose of electrical transmission.

“Wireless” means communications using radio frequency or optical emissions to complete one or more communications paths in whole or in part among originating and receiving points without other tangible physical connection, including, without limitation, radio and unguided optical waves, and the apparatus used for such transmission.

“Wireless support structure” means a freestanding structure that is designed to support or is capable of supporting wireless facilities. The term does not include a utility pole, monopole, or tower.

“Wireless telecommunications service” or “wireless service” means the transmission of information by wire, radio, optic cable, electromagnetic, or similar means for hire, sale or resale to the general public. For the purpose of this subsection, “information” means knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols. For the purpose of this chapter, “wireless telecommunications service” excludes the over-the-air transmission of broadcast television or broadcast radio signals and excludes “cable services,” “cable communications systems” and “CATV systems” as defined in Chapter 5.44. (Ord. 3038 § 3, 2019)