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K <br />NOTE: Wireless facilities are regulated under section 971.44(5). <br />The intent of these regulations is to reasonably accommodate telecommunications needs in a non-discriminatory and competitive neutral manner <br />while ensuring safety, appropriate locations of communications towers and antennas, avoiding an unnecessary proliferation of new tower sites, and <br />minimizing negative aesthetic impacts of communications towers and antennas. <br />Additions (such as antennas or support structures) to existing, legal nonconforming communications towers shall not require special exception <br />use approval unless such additions result in an increase in the original tower height by ten (10) percent or more, as referenced in section 971.05 3), <br />and the increased height requires special exception use approval under the requirements of this section. Where no special exception use approval is <br />required, staff level approval may be granted. (Note: see section 901.03 definition of "communications tower" for limitations applicable to utility <br />poles.) <br />(a) Camouflaged commercial communications towers seventy (70) feet to one hundred fifty (150) feet tall: administrative permit use <br />approval is required: no planning and zoning commission review or approval required if associated with a site plan reviewed as an <br />administrative approval or minor site plan. Criteria 2, 4, and 7 as specified in subsection (g) below must be satisfied for approval of <br />any application. Applies in all zoning districts. <br />(b) Monopole commercial communications towers seventy (70) feet to one hundred fifty (150) feet tall, structurally designed and built <br />to accommodate at least two (2) users: administrative permit use approval is required. Criteria 1, 2, 4, and 7 as specified in <br />subsection (g) below must be satisfied for approval of any application. Applies in the following districts: A-1, A-2, A-3, PRO, OCR, <br />MED, CL, CG, CH, IL, IG, Con -1, Con -2, and Con -3. <br />(c) Commercial communications towers seventy (70) feet to one hundred fifty (150) feet tall not camouflaged and not monopole (with <br />(d) <br />minimum structural capacity for two (2) users): <br />1. Within one mile of urban service area: special exception use approval is required. Criteria 1-16 as specified in subsection (g) <br />below must be satisfied for approval of any application. Applies in the following districts: A-1, A-2, A-3, Con -1, PRO, OCR, MED, <br />CN, CL, CG, CH, IL, and IG. <br />2. More than one mile from urban service area: administrative permit use approval is required. Criteria 1-16 as specified in <br />subsection (g) below must be satisfied for approval of any application. Applies in the following districts: A-1, A-2, A-3, and <br />Con -1. <br />A-3, Con -1, IL, and IG. <br />exception use approval is required. Criteria <br />in the following districts: A-2, <br />(e) Non -conforming commercial towers maybe replaced with anew tower that does not meet the setback standards of criteria (g)1. <br />below if: the degree of setback non -conformity is not increased, the tower is designed for and used by multiple users, and the <br />applicable approval procedures and criteria for the type of tower specified in (a)—(d) above are satisfied. <br />1. Commercial communications towers over seventy (70) feet tall maybe approved as a special exception use on a publicly <br />owned site in any zoning district, subject to satisfying criteria 1-17 of subsection (g) below, and subject to the following: <br />a. The site shall be twenty (20) acres or larger in size, and <br />b. The proposed tower shall be set back from the nearest boundary of developable private property a distance equal to <br />three hundred (300) percent of the tower height. <br />(f) Additional information requirements: <br />1. Documentation of the possession of any required license by any federal, state or local agency; <br />2. A site plan, pursuant to the requirements of Q]2RJ r 914: <br />3. A map showing the distance from the proposed tower to the closest towers over seventy (70) feet in height located north, <br />south, east, and west of the proposed tower. <br />4. Information on how fair market value rates will be determined and applied to other potential users for leasing/renting space <br />on the proposed tower. <br />5. Additional requirements relating to towers may also be found in Chapters 911. 912, ander. <br />(g) The following criteria must be used for administrative permit and special exception uses, as previously specified: <br />1. All towers not related to amateur radio communications use and not constituting a "camouflaged commercial <br />communications tower" shall have setbacks from all property lines or boundaries of development sites (areas180 <br />ATTACHMENT 3 <br />