10-17-9 Height Of Telecommunications Tower(S)
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A. The maximum preferred height of a new tower shall be sixty feet tall, based on accommodating two collocated antenna arrays that cannot be located at the same level.
B. The applicant shall submit documentation justifying the total height of any requested tower, facility, and/or antenna and the basis therefore. 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. In no case shall a new tower’s total height exceed 100 feet.
C. No tower constructed after the effective date of this ordinance, including allowing for all attachments, shall exceed that height which shall permit operation without required artificial lighting of any kind in accordance with City, municipal, State, and/or any Federal statute, law, local law, City ordinance, code rule, or regulation.
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