1. Most Preferred Locations.

2. Least Preferred Locations.

1. New communication facilities shall be co-located with existing facilities and with other planned new facilities whenever feasible and aesthetically desirable. In addition, where feasible and aesthetically desirable, service providers are encouraged to co-locate with other facilities such as existing buildings, water tanks, light standards, and other utility structures where the co-location is found to minimize the overall visual impact. Service providers shall exhaust all reasonable measures to co-locate their communications facilities on existing towers or with or within existing ancillary support equipment facilities prior to applying for new communication facility sites. The service provider shall provide evidence that the provider has contacted all other potential providers who have, or who are reasonably likely to be installing, facilities within the vicinity of the proposed facility and has offered to participate in a joint installation project on reasonable terms. In order to facilitate co-location, conditions of approval for conditional use permits for new facilities shall require all service providers to cooperate in the siting of equipment and antennas to accommodate the maximum number of operators at a given site where found to be feasible and aesthetically desirable.

2. No new freestanding antenna structure, including towers, lattice towers, and monopoles, shall be located within one thousand (1,000) feet of another freestanding facility unless mounting on a building or co-location on an existing pole or tower is not feasible and techniques have been used to camouflage, screen, or otherwise minimize the visual impact of the facility to the extent feasible.

1. All ground-mounted wireless communication equipment shall be of a minimum functional height.

2. The height of a tower or monopole located on the ground shall not exceed thirty-five (35) feet.

3. Subject to approval of a conditional use permit, a tower or monopole, may exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height, but shall not exceed fifty (50) feet when located adjacent to residentially zoned properties or a residential development in a PD Zoning District, and shall not be readily visible to an adjacent residentially zoned property.

4. The height of a communications facility located on a building shall not exceed fifteen (15) feet above the maximum height limit for that district.

5. Antennas mounted on the side of a building shall not extend above the roof line or building parapet.

6. Antennas mounted on existing electric towers, utility poles or light poles shall not exceed the existing height of the tower or pole.

1. All ground-mounted equipment, antennas, poles, towers or monopoles shall be sited to be screened by existing development, topography, or vegetation, to the extent feasible. Ground-mounted facilities are encouraged to be located within buildings, underground, in fenced enclosures, and placed in areas where substantial screening by existing buildings or vegetation can be achieved. Additional new vegetation or other screening may be required by the Zoning Administrator or by the Planning Commission if a conditional use permit is required. The applicant shall use the smallest and least visible antennas possible to accomplish the owner/operator’s coverage objectives.

2. All associated wiring and power cables for a communications facility shall be concealed within stealth enclosures along with associated antennas, within the tower or monopole, or within cable covers to blend with the existing natural or built surroundings and existing supporting structures. Wiring and cable runs shall not be installed on the exterior of a building wall that is visible from a public right-of-way or parking lot.

1. Communication facilities located on the roof of a building shall be set back from the nearest roof edge the equivalent of the height of the tower or a minimum of ten (10) feet, whichever is greater.

2. Towers, monopoles and antennas shall be set back, and not readily visible, from a residentially zoned property or residential development within a PD Zoning District at a ratio of two (2) horizontal feet for every one foot in height.

3. Towers, monopoles and antennas shall be set back from any site boundary or public right-of-way by a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet. No part of any tower or antenna shall extend into any required front or street side yard or beyond the property lines of the development site.

4. In order of preference, ancillary support equipment for a communication facility shall be located either within a building, underground, in a rear yard or on a screened rooftop area. Ground-mounted facilities that are located within the front or side yard or public right-of-way shall be undergrounded, unless the applicant demonstrates that undergrounding is not technologically feasible, and located so as to be screened by landscaping, in close proximity to existing above-ground utilities (such as electrical towers or utility poles), light poles, trees of comparable height, water tanks, and other areas where the ground-mounted facility will be designed and screened to blend with the existing natural or built surroundings .