The goals of this chapter are to: (i) enhance the ability of wireless service providers to provide such services throughout the town quickly, effectively, and efficiently; (ii) encourage wireless service providers to co-locate on new and existing sites; (iii) encourage wireless service providers to locate wireless communications facilities, to the greatest extent possible, in areas where the adverse impact on town residents is minimal; and (iv) encourage wireless communications service providers to design, construct and maintain wireless communications facilities in a way that minimizes significant adverse visual and environmental impacts.

Accordingly, the town council finds that the promulgation of this chapter is warranted and necessary:

A. To manage the location of wireless communications facilities in the town;

B. To protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse impacts of wireless communications facilities;

C. To minimize adverse visual impacts of wireless communications facilities through careful design, siting, landscape screening, and innovative camouflaging techniques;

D. To accommodate an increased need for wireless communications facilities to serve the wireless communications needs of town residents;

E. To promote and encourage co-location on existing and new sites as an option rather than construction of additional single-use sites, and to reduce the number of such structures needed in the future;

F. To consider the public health and safety of towers to the extent permitted by the Telecommunications Act of l996; and

G. To avoid potential damage to adjacent properties through sound engineering practices and the proper siting of antenna support structures. (Ord. 00-395 §2, 2000)