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l� CITY OF ST.ANTHONY • ORDINANCE 2001-004 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION TOWERS AND FACILITIES;REPEALING SECTION 1160 OF CHAPTER 11,AND ADDING SECTION 1680 TO CHAPTER 16 OF THE 1993 ST.ANTHONY CODE OF ORDINANCES The City Council of the City of St.Anthony hereby ordains: Section 1. Chapter 11,Section 1160,Antennas and Towers,is hereby repealed. Section 2. Chapter 16 is hereby amended to add Section 1680,Wireless Telecommunication Towers and Facilities; to read in its entirety as follows: 1680.01. Council Findings. The Communications Act of 1934 as amended by the Telecommunication Act of 1996 grants the Federal Communications Commission jurisdiction over many aspects of telecommunications services. The City's regulation of Towers and WTFs in the City will not have the effect of prohibiting any person from providing wireless telecommunications services in violation of the Act. 1680.02. Purpose. The general purpose of this Section is to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of Towers and WTFs in order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, while at the same time encouraging the development of the competitive wireless telecommunications marketplace in the City. The specific purposes of this Section are: (a) To allow the location of telecommunication Towers and WTFs in the Ciw (b) To protect.residential areas from potential adverse impact of Towers and WTFs; (c) To minimize adverse visual impact of Towers and WTFs through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques; (d) To promote and encourage shared collocation of Towers and Antenna support structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single use Towers; (e) To promote and encourage utilization of technological designs that will either eliminate or reduce the need for erection of new Tower structures to support. WTFs; (f) To avoid potential damage to property caused by Towers and WTFs by ensuring such structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer used or are determined to be structurally unsound; (g) To ensure that Towers and WTFs are compatible with surrounding land uses; ® (h) To overcome the potential adverse impacts that poorly or unregulated Towers and WTFs could have on the public health, safety and welfare; and (i) Enhance the ability of the providers of telecommunications services to provide such services to the community quickly, effectively,and efficiently.