20.890.010 Purpose.
A. Purpose. In addition to accomplishing the general purposes of the Comprehensive Plan and Title 20, the purpose of this chapter is to set forth the regulations for the placement, development, permitting, and removal of wireless communications facilities, including support structures and antennas. The purposes of this ordinance are to:
1. Minimize the adverse visual, aesthetic and safety impacts of wireless communications facilities or residential districts and on the community as a whole.
2. Establish clear and objective standards for the placement, design and continuing maintenance of wireless communications facilities,
3. Ensure that such standards allow competition and do not unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally-equivalent services.
4. Encourage the design of such facilities to be aesthetically and architecturally compatible with the surrounding built and natural environments.
5. Encourage the location of wireless communications support structures in nonresidential areas.
6. Encourage the collocation or attachment of wireless communications antennas on existing support structures or to help minimize the total number and impact of such structures throughout the community. (Ord. M-3643, 2004)