Agenda - Planning Commission - 02/04/1997

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(i) To the specific operating activity using the land upon which the wireless telecommunication towers and antennas are located (for example, Water Utility Fund when located on water utility property); 0i) To the Park Improvement Fund if located on park or open space land; (iii) Any revenues not meeting the above criteria Shall be applied as general revenues of the General Fund. 9.15.05 CO-LOCATION REOUIREMENTS All commercial wireless telecommunication towers erected, constructed, or located within the City shall comply with the following requirements: (a) A proposal for a new commercial wireless telecommunication service tower shall not be approved unless the City Council finds that the telecommunications equipment planned for the proposed tower cannot be accommodated on an existing or approved tower or building within a one mile search radius of the proposed tower due to one or more of the following reasons: (1) The planned equipment would exceed the structural capacity of the existing or approved tower or building, as documented by a qualified and licensed professional engineer, and the existing or approved tower cannot be reinforced, modified, or replaced to accommodate planned or equivalent equipment at a reasonable cost. (2) The planned equipment would cause interference materially impacting the usability of other existing or planned equipment at the tower or building as documented by a qualified and licensed professional engineer and the interference cannot be prevented at a reasonable cost. (3) Existing or approved towers and buildings within the search radius cannot accommodate the planned equipment at a height necessary to function reasonably as documented by a qualified and licensed professional engineer. (4) Other unforeseen reasons that make it infeasible to locate the planned telecommunications equipment upon an existing or approved tower or building. (b) Shared use of existing communication towers shall be preferred to the construction of a new tower. Any proposed commercial wireless telecommunication service tower shall be designed, structurally, electrically, and in all respects, to accommodate both the applicant's antennas and comparable antennas for at least two additional users if the tower is one hundred (100) feet or more in height or for at least one additional user if the tower is more than sixty (60) feet but less than one hundred (100) feet in height. 9.15.06 TOWER CONSTRUCTION REOUIREMENT$ All towers erected, constructed, or located within the City, and al/wiring therefor, shall comply with the requirements set forth of Chapter 8 of this code. 9.15.07 TOWER AND ANTENNA DESIGN REOUIREMENT$ Proposed or modified' towers and antennas shall meet the following design requirements.