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The Telecommunications Act of 1996: What It Meana to Local Governments <br />i <br />Things to Think About <br /> <br />^ <br />^ <br /> <br />^ Do your zoning ordinances and regulations deal with <br />communications antennas and towers at all? If so, do <br />they address those facilities separately, or as part of <br />general zoning requirements that are applied to other <br />facilities and structures as well? <br />Have you adopted any zoning ordinances or variances or <br />made any zoning decisions concerning communications <br />towers or antennas? If so, what did those ordinances or <br />decisions say? <br />Do you have a strategy for revising your zoning <br />ordinance, code or process o comply with the new Act? <br />Have you considered how you will develop a written <br />record to justify your zoning actions concerning towers <br />and antennas under the new Act? Will youneed to <br />change the process you have used in the past? Will you <br />need to consider using experts who could provide <br />testimony or rebut evidence submitted by the:-industry <br />applicant seeking to erect a new tower or:antenna.' <br />^ Are your zoning decisions issued in writing, giving <br />detailed reasons for the result? If not, have you ' - ' <br />considered revising the process? <br />^ Have you imposed a moratorium on zoning requests-for <br />communications towers oc antennas? .If so, do you have <br />a plan for etYiing the moratorium'anijgutting rules in, , <br />::.place consistyient with the new Act? ~' <br />y. _ r ...r'F y F _ <br />a...~ ~ ,~ ti ~`~. <br />^ Do you place any restrictions on ~ilacement of rdofto~~ , <br />antennas oratellite dishes`or~backyard sateli~tec3ishe~~:: <br />Are your residents concemed,ahoirt such struct~res~ ~.If~ `,'.~ <br />so, should ygiur.ciryparticipate in the upcoming,FO~ ~,,~ h <br />proceedings telating to there topics Have; youanform~ ~, <br />.your 5enato and memberaf.~ngress~~of your-city's '~ <br />concerns? ~ ~ ~- ~~ <br />~" 4 k' <br />~~ , <br />,, <br />y1' <br />,: <br />~,,. <br />ro ?~ <br />g <br />~~ <br />1 ti''c <br />30 <br />