18.78.010 Policies, Purpose and Goals:
A. Provision of Opportunities for Wireless Providers. This Chapter is designed to provide opportunities for personal wireless service facilities consistent with the statutory rights of wireless communication service providers while providing for orderly development of the City and protecting the health, safety, and general welfare of the City’s residents and property owners.
B. Preservation of Character of City. A primary objective of this Chapter is to preserve the existing visual and aesthetic character of the City and its neighborhoods, as well as minimizing the noise impacts generated by personal wireless service facilities. Preserving the visual and aesthetic character of the City includes the protection of views within the City which create a special character for the community, high property values, and a tax base sufficient to support the City’s operations, and limiting the intrusion of noise, visual, and aesthetic impacts associated with commercial and other uses into residential neighborhoods.
C. The Goals of This Chapter Include:
1. Establishing development regulations consistent with the city’s comprehensive land use plan;
2. Providing sites for locating personal wireless service facilities;
3. Providing personal wireless service facilities and infrastructure to serve city residents and visitors;
4. Encouraging the use of appropriate technology that has minimal adverse environmental, noise, and visual impacts on the city and the prompt removal of abandoned facilities;
5. Encouraging the location of facilities upon existing non-residential structures in commercial and industrial zoning districts, in such a manner that the facility is integrated, or appears to be integrated, into the structure;
6. Establishing standards for personal wireless service facilities to mitigate the visual and noise impacts associated with those facilities;
7. Facilitating the use of existing Grant County Public Utility District high voltage transmission towers in private rights-of-way in non-residential zones for personal wireless service facilities to reduce the impacts of facilities upon residential and other properties; and
8. Encouraging the development of personal wireless service facilities on a competitively neutral basis. (Ord. 2144, 12/9/03)