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City of New Haven, MO Siting of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
§ 420.010 Purpose and Legislative Intent.
§ 420.020 Title.
§ 420.030 Severability.
§ 420.050 Overall Policy and Desired Goals For Special Use Permits For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.060 Exceptions From A Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.070 Exclusions.
§ 420.080 Special Use Permit Application and Other Requirements.
§ 420.090 Location of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.100 Shared Use of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities and Other Structures.
§ 420.110 Height of Telecommunications Tower(s).
§ 420.120 Visibility of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.130 Security of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.140 Signage.
§ 420.150 Lot Size and Setbacks.
§ 420.160 Retention of Expert Assistance and Reimbursement By Applicant.
§ 420.170 Public Hearing and Notification Requirements.
§ 420.180 Action On An Application For A Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.190 Extent and Parameters of Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.200 Application Fee.
§ 420.210 Performance Security.
§ 420.220 Reservation of Authority To Inspect Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.230 Liability Insurance.
§ 420.240 Indemnification.
§ 420.250 Fines.
§ 420.260 Default and/or Revocation.
§ 420.270 Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
§ 420.280 Relief.
§ 420.290 Periodic Regulatory Review By The City.
§ 420.300 Adherence To State and/or Federal Rules and Regulations.
City of New Haven, MO / Land Use
Chapter 420 Siting of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
Section 420.010 Purpose and Legislative Intent.
Section 420.020 Title.
Section 420.030 Severability.
Section 420.050 Overall Policy and Desired Goals For Special Use Permits For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.060 Exceptions From A Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.070 Exclusions.
Section 420.080 Special Use Permit Application and Other Requirements.
Section 420.090 Location of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.100 Shared Use of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities and Other Structures.
Section 420.110 Height of Telecommunications Tower(s).
Section 420.120 Visibility of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.130 Security of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.140 Signage.
Section 420.150 Lot Size and Setbacks.
Section 420.160 Retention of Expert Assistance and Reimbursement By Applicant.
Section 420.170 Public Hearing and Notification Requirements.
Section 420.180 Action On An Application For A Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.190 Extent and Parameters of Special Use Permit For Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.200 Application Fee.
Section 420.210 Performance Security.
Section 420.220 Reservation of Authority To Inspect Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.230 Liability Insurance.
Section 420.240 Indemnification.
Section 420.250 Fines.
Section 420.260 Default and/or Revocation.
Section 420.270 Removal of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
Section 420.280 Relief.
Section 420.290 Periodic Regulatory Review By The City.
Section 420.300 Adherence To State and/or Federal Rules and Regulations.
[Ord. No. 1025 §1, 2-13-2012]
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 affirmed the City of New Haven's authority concerning the placement, construction and modification of wireless telecommunications facilities. The City of New Haven finds that wireless telecommunications facilities may pose significant concerns to the health, safety, public welfare, character and environment of the City and its inhabitants. The City also recognizes that facilitating the development of wireless service technology can be an economic development asset to the City and of significant benefit to the City and its residents. In order to ensure that the placement, construction or modification of wireless telecommunications facilities is consistent with the City's land use policies, the City is adopting a single, comprehensive, wireless telecommunications facilities application and permit process. The intent of this local ordinance is to minimize the impact of wireless telecommunications facilities, establish a fair and efficient process for review and approval of applications, ensure an integrated, comprehensive review of environmental impacts of such facilities, and protect the health, safety and welfare of the City of New Haven.
[Ord. No. 1025 §2, 2-13-2012]
This Chapter shall be known and cited as the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Siting Ordinance for the City of New Haven.
[Ord. No. 1025 §3, 2-13-2012]
Any special use permit issued under this Chapter shall be comprehensive and not severable. If part of a permit is deemed or ruled to be invalid or unenforceable in any material respect, by a competent authority, or is overturned by a competent authority, the special use permit shall be void in total, upon determination by the City.
[Ord. No. 1025 §4, 2-13-2012]
The use of an existing tower or structure to support antennae for the provision of wireless services. A replacement tower that is constructed on the same site as an existing tower will be considered a co-location so long as the new tower is no taller than the old tower and that the old tower is removed in a reasonably short time frame after the new tower is constructed.
The inability to perform an act on terms that are reasonable in commerce; the cause or occurrence of which could not have been reasonably anticipated or foreseen and that jeopardizes the financial efficacy of the project. The inability to achieve a satisfactory financial return on investment or profit, standing alone, shall not deem a situation to be "commercial impracticable" and shall not render an act or the terms of an agreement "commercially impracticable".
The Board of Aldermen of the City of New Haven.
When referring to a tower or structure, the distance measured from the pre-existing grade level to the highest point on the tower or structure, even if said highest point is an antenna or lightening protection device.
Any individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, joint stock company, association of two (2) or more persons having a joint common interest, or any other entity.
See definition for "WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES".
A structure used in the provision of services described in the definition of "wireless telecommunications facilities".
Temporary in relation to all aspects and components of this Chapter, something intended to, or that does not exist for more than ninety (90) days.
Includes a "telecommunications site" and "personal wireless facility". It means a structure, facility or location designed, or intended to be used as, or used to support antennas or other transmitting or receiving devices. This includes, without limit, towers of all types and kinds and structures, including, but not limited to, buildings, church steeples, silos, water towers, signs or other structures that can be used as a support structure for antennas or the functional equivalent of such. It further includes all related facilities and equipment such as cabling, equipment shelters and other structures associated with the site. It is a structure and facility intended for transmitting and/or receiving radio, television, cellular, SMR, paging, "911", personal communications services (PCS), commercial satellite services, microwave services and any commercial wireless telecommunication service not licensed by the FCC.
[Ord. No. 1025 §5, 2-13-2012]
Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of wireless telecommunications facilities in such a manner, including, but not limited to, the use of stealth technology, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area as the requested location of such wireless telecommunications facilities, which shall mean using the least visually and physically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and circumstances.
In granting a special use permit, the City has found that the facility shall be the most appropriate site as regards being the least visually intrusive among those available in the City.
[Ord. No. 1025 §6, 2-13-2012]
Except as otherwise provided by this Chapter, no person shall be permitted to site, place, build, construct, modify or prepare any site for the placement or use of wireless telecommunications facilities as of the effective date of this Chapter without having first obtained a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, no special use permit shall be required for those non-commercial exclusions noted in Section 420.070.
All legally permitted wireless telecommunications facilities, constructed as permitted, existing on or before the effective date of this Chapter shall be allowed to continue as they presently exist, provided however, that any visible modification of an existing wireless telecommunications facility will require the complete facility and any new installation to comply with this Chapter.
Any repair and maintenance of a wireless telecommunications facility does not require an application for a special use permit.
[Ord. No. 1025 §7, 2-13-2012]
The City's fire, police, street/highway department or other public service facilities owned and operated by the local government.
Over-the-air reception devices including the reception antennas for direct broadcast satellites (DBS), multi-channel multi-point distribution (wireless cable) providers (MMDS), television broadcast stations (TVBS) and other customer-end antennas that receive and transmit fixed wireless signals that are primarily used for reception.
Facilities exclusively for private, non-commercial radio and television reception and private citizen's bands, licensed amateur radio and other similar non-commercial telecommunications.
Facilities exclusively for providing unlicensed spread spectrum technologies (such as IEEE 802.11a, b, g (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth where the facility does not require a new tower.
[Ord. No. 1025 §8, 2-13-2012]
All applicants for a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities or any modification of such facility shall comply with the requirements set forth in this Chapter. The Council is the officially designated agency or body of the City to whom applications for a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities must be made, and that is authorized to review, analyze, evaluate and make decisions with respect to granting or not granting or revoking special use permits for wireless telecommunications facilities. The City may at its discretion delegate or designate other official agencies or officials of the City to accept, review, analyze, evaluate and make recommendations to the Council with respect to the granting or not granting or revoking special use permits for wireless telecommunications facilities.
No wireless telecommunications facilities shall be installed, constructed or modified until the application is reviewed and approved by the City, and the special use permit has been issued.
That the construction of the wireless telecommunications facilities is legally permissible, including, but not limited to, the fact that the applicant is authorized to do business in the State
Where a certification is called for in this Chapter, such certification shall bear the signature and seal of a registered professional licensed in the State of Missouri.
The azimuth, size and centerline height location of all proposed and existing antennae on the supporting structure;
In order to better inform the public, in the case of a new telecommunication tower, the applicant shall, prior to the public hearing on the application, hold a "balloon test". The applicant shall arrange to fly, or raise upon a temporary mast, a minimum of a three (3) foot in diameter brightly colored balloon at the maximum height of the proposed new tower. The dates (including a second (2nd) date, in case of poor visibility on the initial date) times and location of this balloon test shall be advertised by the applicant seven (7) and fourteen (14) days in advance of the first (1st) test date in a newspaper with a general circulation in the City. The applicant shall inform the City, in writing, of the dates and times of the test, at least fourteen (14) days in advance. The balloon shall be flown for at least four (4) consecutive hours sometime between 7:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. on the dates chosen. The primary date shall be on a weekend, but in case of poor weather on the initial date, the secondary date may be on a weekday. A report with pictures from various locations of the balloon shall be provided with the application.
The applicant shall examine the feasibility of designing the proposed tower to accommodate future demand for at least four (4) additional commercial applications, for example, future co-locations. The tower shall be structurally designed to accommodate at least four (4) additional antenna arrays equal to those of the applicant, and located as close to the applicant's antenna as possible without causing interference. This requirement may be waived, provided that the applicant, in writing, demonstrates that the provisions of future shared usage of the tower is not technologically feasible, is commercially impracticable or creates an unnecessary and unreasonable burden, based upon:
Respond within sixty (60) days to a request for information from a potential shared-use applicant;
Allow shared use of the new tower if another telecommunications provider agrees in writing to pay reasonable charges. The charges may include, but are not limited to, a pro rata share of the cost of site selection, planning, project administration, land costs, site design, construction and maintenance financing, return-on-equity, less depreciation, and all of the costs of adapting the towel or equipment to accommodate a shared user without causing electromagnetic interference.
The applicant shall provide certification with documentation (structural analysis) including calculations that the telecommunication facility tower and foundation and attachments, rooftop, support structure, water tank structure, and any other supporting structure as proposed to be utilized are designed and will be constructed to meet all local, City, State and Federal structural requirements for loads, including wind and ice loads.
If proposal is for a co-location or modification on an existing tower, the applicant is to provide signed documentation of the tower condition such as an ANSI report as per Annex E, Tower Maintenance and Inspection Procedures, ANSI/TIA/EIA-222F or most recent version adopted by the City. The inspection report must be performed every three (3) years for a guyed tower and five (5) years for monopoles and self-supporting towers.
If a new tower, proposal for a new antenna attachment to an existing structure, or modification adding to a visual impact, the applicant shall furnish a visual assessment, which shall include:
If a new tower or increase in the height of an existing structure is proposed, a computer generated "zone of visibility map" at a minimum of one (1) mile radius from the proposed structure, with and without foliage, shall be provided to illustrate locations from which the proposed installation may be seen.
Pictorial representations of "before and after" (photo simulations) views from key viewpoints both inside and outside of the City as may be appropriate, including, but not limited to, State highways and other major roads; State and local parks; other public lands; historic districts; preserves and historic sites normally open to the public; and from any other location where the site is visible to a large number of visitors, travelers or residents. Guidance will be provided concerning the appropriate key sites at the pre-application meeting. Provide a map showing the locations of where the pictures were taken and distance from the proposed structure.
The wireless telecommunications facility and any and all accessory or associated facilities shall maximize the use of building materials, colors and textures designed to blend with the structure to which it may be affixed and/or to harmonize with the natural surroundings, this shall include the utilization of stealth or concealment technology as may be required by the City.
All utilities at a wireless telecommunications facilities site shall be installed underground whenever possible and in compliance with all laws, ordinances, rules and regulations of the City, including specifically, but not limited to, the National Electrical Safety Code and the National Electrical Code, where appropriate.
At a telecommunications site, an access road, turnaround space and parking shall be provided to ensure adequate emergency and service access. Maximum use of existing roads, whether public or private, shall be made to the extent practicable. Road construction shall at all times minimize ground disturbance and the cutting of vegetation. Road grades shall closely follow natural contours to assure minimal visual disturbance and reduce soil erosion.
All wireless telecommunications facilities shall be constructed, operated, maintained, repaired, provided for removal of, modified or restored in strict compliance with all current applicable technical, safety and safety-related codes adopted by the City, State, or United States, including, but not limited to, the most recent editions of the ANSI Code, National Electrical Safety Code and the National Electrical Code, as well as accepted and responsible workmanlike industry practices and recommended practices of the National Association of Tower Erectors. The codes referred to are codes that include, but are not limited to, construction, building, electrical, fire, safety, health, and land use codes. In the event of a conflict between or among any of the preceding, the more stringent shall apply.
[Ord. No. 1025 §9, 2-13-2012]
Applicants for wireless telecommunications facilities shall locate, site and erect said wireless telecommunications facilities in accordance with the following priorities, one (1) being the highest priority and seven (7) being the lowest priority.
On existing towers or other structures on City-owned properties.
A new tower on City-owned properties.
A new tower on properties in areas zoned for commercial use.
A new tower on properties in areas zoned for agricultural use.
An applicant may not bypass sites of higher priority by stating the site proposed is the only site leased or selected. An application shall address co-location as an option. If such an option is not proposed, the applicant must explain to the reasonable satisfaction of the City why co-location is commercially, or otherwise, impracticable. Agreements between providers limiting or prohibiting co-location shall not be a valid basis for any claim of commercial impracticability or hardship.
Notwithstanding the above, the City may approve any site, located within an area in the above list of priorities; provided that the City finds that the proposed site is in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the City and its inhabitants and will not have a deleterious effect on the nature and character of the community and neighborhood.
[Ord. No. 1025 §10, 2-13-2012]
The City, as opposed to the construction of a new tower, shall prefer locating on existing towers or others structures without increasing the height. The applicant shall submit a comprehensive report inventorying existing towers and other suitable structures within two (2) miles of the location of any proposed new tower, unless the applicant can show that some other distance is more reasonable and demonstrate conclusively why an existing tower or other suitable structure cannot be used.
[Ord. No. 1025 §11, 2-13-2012]
The applicant shall submit documentation justifying the total height of any tower, facility and/or antenna requested and the basis therefore. Documentation in the form of propagation studies must include all backup data used to perform at requested height and a minimum of ten (10) feet lower height to allow verification of this height need. Such documentation will be analyzed in the context of the justification of the height needed to provide service primarily and essentially within the City, to the extent practicable, unless good cause is shown.
[Ord. No. 1025 §12, 2-13-2012]
[Ord. No. 1025 §13, 2-13-2012]
[Ord. No. 1025 §14, 2-13-2012]
Wireless telecommunications facilities shall contain a sign no larger than four (4) square feet in order to provide adequate notification to persons in the immediate area of the presence of RF radiation or to control exposure to RF radiation within a given area. A sign of the same size is also to be installed to contain the name(s) of the owner(s) and operator(s) of the antenna(s) as well as emergency phone number(s). The sign shall be on the equipment shelter or cabinet of the applicant and be visible from the access point of the site and must identify the equipment owner of the shelter or cabinet. On tower sites, an FCC registration site as applicable is also to be present. The signs shall not be lighted, unless applicable law, rule or regulation requires lighting. No other signage, including advertising, shall be permitted.
[Ord. No. 1025 §15, 2-13-2012]
All proposed towers and any other proposed wireless telecommunications facility structures shall be set back from abutting parcels, recorded rights-of-way and road and street lines by the greater of the following distances: A distance equal to the height of the proposed tower or wireless telecommunications facility structure plus ten percent (10%) of the height of the tower or structure, or the existing setback requirement of the underlying zoning district, whichever is greater. The City may at its discretion amend or waive this requirement on a case-by-case basis. Any accessory structure shall be located so as to comply with the applicable minimum setback requirements for the property on which it is situated.
[Ord. No. 1025 §16, 2-13-2012]
An applicant shall deposit with the City funds sufficient to reimburse the City for all reasonable costs of consultant and expert evaluation and consultation to the City in connection with the review of any application including, where applicable, the lease negotiation, the pre-approval evaluation, and the construction and modification of the site, once permitted. The initial deposit shall be eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500.00). The placement of the eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500.00) with the City shall precede the pre-application meeting. The City will maintain a separate escrow account for all such funds. The City's consultants/experts shall invoice the City for its services related to the application. If at any time during the process this escrow account has a balance less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), the applicant shall immediately, upon notification by the City, replenish said escrow account so that it has a balance of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). Such additional escrow funds shall be deposited with the City before any further action or consideration is taken on the application. In the event that the amount held in escrow by the City is more than the amount of the actual invoicing at the conclusion of the project, the remaining balance shall, upon request of the applicant, be promptly refunded to the applicant.
Notwithstanding the above, there shall be a fee cap of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000.00) as to the total consultant fees to be charged to an applicant in a case. The foregoing does not prohibit the City from imposing additional reasonable and cost based fees incurred should an applicant amend or change its application and the fee cap shall not apply as to any fees which the City determines to be attributable to the dilatory or otherwise bad faith actions of applicant in providing a complete application or in proceeding with a public hearing.
The total amount of the funds needed as set forth in Subsection (B) of this Section may vary with the scope (lease negotiations and/or review) and complexity of the project, the completeness of the application and other information as may be needed to complete the necessary review, analysis and inspection of any construction or modification.
[Ord. No. 1025 §17, 2-13-2012]
Prior to the approval of any application for a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities, a public hearing shall be held by the City, notice of which shall be published in the newspaper general circulation in/of the City no less than fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the scheduled date of the public hearing. In order that the City may notify nearby landowners, the application shall contain the names and address of all landowners whose property is located within one hundred eighty-five (185) feet of any property line of the lot or parcel on which the new wireless telecommunications facilities are proposed to be located.
The City shall schedule the public hearing referred to in Subsection (A) of this Section once it finds the application is complete, the City, at any stage prior to issuing a special use permit, may require such additional information as it deems necessary.
[Ord. No. 1025 §18, 2-13-2012]
The City may refer any application or part thereof to any advisory, other committee or commission for a non-binding recommendation.
After the public hearing and after formally considering the application, the City may approve, approve with conditions, or deny a special use permit. Its decision shall be in writing and shall be supported by substantial evidence contained in a written record. The burden of proof for the granting of the special use permit shall always be upon the applicant.
If the City approves the special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities, then the applicant shall be notified of such approval in writing within ten (10) calendar days of the City's action, and the special use permit shall be issued within thirty (30) days after such approval. Except for necessary building permits, and subsequent certificate(s) of compliance, once a special use permit has been granted hereunder, no additional permits or approvals from the City, such as site plan or zoning approvals, shall be required by the City for the wireless telecommunications facilities covered by the special use permit.
If the City denies the special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities, then the applicant shall be notified of such denial in writing within ten (10) calendar days of the City's action.
[Ord. No. 1025 §19, 2-13-2012]
Such special use permit shall not be assigned, transferred or conveyed, without the express prior written notification to the City.
[Ord. No. 1025 §20, 2-13-2012]
At the time that a person submits an application for a special use permit for a new tower, such person shall pay a non-refundable application fee of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) to the City. If the application is for a special use permit for co-locating on an existing tower or other suitable structure, where no increase in height of the tower or structure is required, the non-refundable fee shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
[Ord. No. 1025 §21, 2-13-2012]
The applicant and the owner of record of any proposed wireless telecommunications facilities property site shall, at its cost and expense, be jointly required to execute and file with the City a bond, or other form of security acceptable to the City as to type of security and the form and manner of execution, in an amount of at least seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) for a tower facility and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) for a co-location on an existing tower or other structure and with such sureties as are deemed sufficient by the City to assure the faithful performance of the terms and conditions of this Chapter and conditions of any special use permit issued pursuant to this Chapter. The full amount of the bond or security shall remain in full force and effect throughout the term of the special use permit and/or until any necessary site restoration is completed to restore the site to a condition comparable to that which existed prior to the issuance of the original special use permit.
[Ord. No. 1025 §22, 2-13-2012]
[Ord. No. 1025 §23, 2-13-2012]
Commercial general liability covering personal injuries, death and property damage: one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) per occurrence/two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) aggregate;
Automobile coverage: one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) per occurrence/two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) aggregate;
For a wireless telecommunications facility located on City property, the commercial general liability insurance policy shall specifically include the City and its officers, councils, employees, committee members, attorneys, agents and consultants as additional insureds.
The insurance policies shall contain an endorsement obligating the insurance company to furnish the City with at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice in advance of the cancellation of the insurance.
Renewal or replacement policies or certificates shall be delivered to the City at least fifteen (15) days before the expiration of the insurance that such policies are to renew or replace.
Before construction of a permitted wireless telecommunications facilities is initiated, but in no case later than fifteen (15) days after the granting of the special use permit, the holder of the special use permit shall deliver to the City a copy of each of the policies or certificates representing the insurance in the required amounts.
[Ord. No. 1025 §24, 2-13-2012]
Any application for wireless telecommunication facilities that is proposed for City property, pursuant to this Chapter, shall contain a provision with respect to indemnification. Such provision shall require the applicant, to the extent permitted by the law, to at all times defend, indemnify, protect, save, hold harmless, and exempt the City, and its officers, councils, employees, committee members, attorneys, agents, and consultants from any and all penalties, damages, costs, or charges arising out of any and all claims, suits, demands, causes of action, or award of damages, whether compensatory or punitive, or expenses arising therefrom, either at law or in equity, which might arise out of, or are caused by, the placement, construction, erection, modification, location, products performance, use, operation, maintenance, repair, installation, replacement, removal, or restoration of said facility, excepting, however, any portion of such claims, suits, demands, causes of action or award of damages as may be attributable to the negligent or intentional acts or omissions of the City, or its servants or agents. With respect to the penalties, damages or charges referenced herein, reasonable attorneys' fees, consultants' fees, and expert witness fees are included in those costs that are recoverable by the City.
Notwithstanding the requirements noted in Subsection (A) of this Section, an indemnification provision will not be required in those instances where the City itself applies for and secures a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities.
[Ord. No. 1025 §25, 2-13-2012]
The holder of a special use permits failure to comply with provisions of this Chapter shall constitute a violation of this Chapter and shall subject the applicant to the code enforcement provisions and procedures as provided in the City of New Haven City Code and the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri.
[Ord. No. 1025 §26, 2-13-2012]
If a wireless telecommunications facility is repaired, rebuilt, placed, moved, relocated, modified or maintained in a way that is inconsistent or not in compliance with the provisions of this Chapter or of the special use permit, then the City shall notify the holder of the special use permit in writing of such violation. A permit holder in violation may be considered in default and subject to fines as in Section 420.250 and if a violation is not corrected to the satisfaction of the City in a reasonable period of time, the special use permit is subject to revocation.
[Ord. No. 1025 §27, 2-13-2012]
Wireless telecommunications facilities with a permit have been abandoned (i.e., not used as wireless telecommunications facilities) for a period exceeding ninety (90) consecutive days or a total of one hundred eighty (180) days in any three hundred sixty-five (365) day period, except for periods caused by force majeure or acts of God, in which case, repair or removal shall commence within ninety (90) days;
If the City makes such a determination as noted in Subsection (A) of this Section, then the City shall notify the holder of the special use permit for the wireless telecommunications facilities within forty-eight (48) hours that said wireless telecommunications facilities are to be removed, the City may approve an interim temporary use agreement/permit, such as to enable the sale of the wireless telecommunications facilities.
The holder of the special use permit, or its successors or assigns, shall dismantle and remove such wireless telecommunications facilities, and all associated structures and facilities, from the site and restore the site to as close to its original condition as is possible, such restoration being limited only by physical or commercial impracticability, within ninety (90) days of receipt of written notice from the City. However, if the owner of the property upon which the wireless telecommunications facilities are located wishes to retain any access roadway to the wireless telecommunications facilities, the owner may do so with the approval of the City.
If wireless telecommunications facilities are not removed or substantial progress has not been made to remove the wireless telecommunications facilities within ninety (90) days after the permit holder has received notice, then the City may order officials or representatives of the City to remove the wireless telecommunications facilities at the sole expense of the owner or special use permit holder.
If the City removes, or causes to be removed, wireless telecommunications facilities, and the owner of the wireless telecommunications facilities does not claim and remove it from the site to a lawful location within ten (10) days, then the City may take steps to declare the wireless telecommunications facilities abandoned, and sell them and their components.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, the City may approve a temporary use permit/agreement for the wireless telecommunications facilities for no more than ninety (90) days, during which time a suitable plan for removal, conversion, or relocation of the affected wireless telecommunications facilities shall be developed by the holder of the special use permit, subject to the approval of the City, and an agreement to such plan shall be executed by the holder of the special use permit and the City. If such a plan is not developed, approved and executed within the ninety (90) day time period, then the City may take possession of and dispose of the affected wireless telecommunications facilities in the manner provided in this Section.
[Ord. No. 1025 §28, 2-13-2012]
Any applicant desiring relief, waiver or exemption from any aspect or requirement of this Chapter may request such at the pre-application meeting, provided that the relief or exemption is contained in the submitted application for either a special use permit, or in the case of an existing or previously granted special use permit, a request for modification of its tower and/or facilities. Such relief may be temporary or permanent, partial or complete. However, the burden of proving the need for the requested relief, waiver or exemption is solely on the applicant to prove. The applicant shall bear all costs of the City in considering the request and the relief, waiver or exemption. No such relief or exemption shall be approved unless the applicant demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that, if granted, the relief, waiver or exemption will have no significant affect on the health, safety and welfare of the City, its residents and other service providers.
[Ord. No. 1025 §29, 2-13-2012]
If, after such a periodic review and examination of this Chapter, the City determines that one (1) or more provisions of this Chapter should be amended, repealed, revised, clarified, or deleted, then the City may take whatever measures are necessary in accordance with applicable law in order to accomplish the same. It is noted that where warranted, and in the best interests of the City, the City may repeal this entire Chapter at any time.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections (A) and (B) of this Section, the City may at any time and in any manner (to the extent permitted by Federal, State, or local law) amend, add, repeal, and/or delete one (1) or more provisions of this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 1025 §30, 2-13-2012]
To the extent that applicable rules, regulations, standards, and provisions of any State or Federal agency, including, but not limited to, the FAA and the FCC, and specifically including any rules and regulations regarding height, lighting, and security are changed and/or are modified during the duration of a special use permit for wireless telecommunications facilities, then the holder of such a special use permit shall conform the permitted wireless telecommunications facilities to the applicable changed and/or modified rule, regulation, standard, or provision within a maximum of twenty-four (24) months of the effective date of the applicable changed and/or modified rule, regulation, standard, or provision, or sooner as may be required by the issuing entity.