Purposes.
The general purpose of this Section is to regulate the placement,
construction and modification of telecommunications towers, support
structures, and antennae in order to protect the health, safety and
welfare of the public, while at the same time not unreasonably interfering
with the development of the competitive wireless telecommunications
marketplace in Warson Woods. Specifically, this Section is intended
to:
1.
Provide
for the appropriate location and development of telecommunications
facilities and systems to serve the citizens and businesses of the
City of Warson Woods;
2.
Minimize
adverse visual impacts of communications antennae and support structure
through the careful design, siding, landscape screening and innovative
camouflaging techniques;
3.
Maximize
the use of existing and new support structures so as to minimize the
need to construct new or additional facilities;
4.
Maximize
the co-location of facilities on any new support structures;
5.
Ensure
that any new telecommunications tower or structure is located in an
area compatible with the neighborhood or surrounding community to
the extent possible; and
6.
Ensuring
that regulation of telecommunications towers and structures does not
have the effect of prohibiting the provision of personal wireless
services, and does not unreasonably discriminate among functionally
equivalent providers of such service.
