Model Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Bylaw

MODEL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES BYLAW

Presented by VAPDA
MAY 2001

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1.9 Site Plan Requirements for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities not Covered under Section 1.7

In addition to site plan requirements found elsewhere in the Town of ____________________'s [Zoning Bylaws/Subdivision Regulations/Master Plan], site plans for wireless telecommunications facilities shall include the following supplemental information:

A. Location Map: a copy of a portion of the most recent USGS Quadrangle map showing the area within at least a two-mile radius of the proposed facility site.

B. Vicinity Map showing the entire vicinity within a 2500-foot radius of the facility site, including the facility or tower, topography, public and private roads and driveways, buildings and structures, water bodies, wetlands, landscape features, historic sites and habitats for endangered species. It shall indicate the property lines of the proposed facility site parcel and all easements or rights of way needed for access from a public way to the facility.

C. Proposed site plans of the entire development indicating all improvements including landscaping, utility lines, guy wires, screening and roads.

D. Elevations showing all facades and indicating all exterior materials and color of towers, buildings and associated facilities.

E. Computer generated photo simulations of the proposed facility showing the facility from all public rights-of -way and any adjacent property from which it may be visible. Each photo must be labeled with the line of sight, elevation and with the date taken imprinted on the photograph. The photos must show the color of the facility and method of screening.

F. In the case of a proposed site that is forested, the approximate average height of the existing vegetation within 200 feet of the tower base.

G. Construction sequence and time schedule for completion of each phase of the entire project.

Plans shall be drawn at a minimum at the scale of one (1) inch equals fifty (50) feet.

1.10. Collocation Requirements

An application for a new wireless telecommunications facility shall not be approved unless the [Planning Commission/Zoning Board of Adjustment/Development Review Board] finds that the facilities planned for the proposed structure cannot be accommodated on an existing or approved tower or structure due to one of the following reasons:

A. The proposed antennas and equipment would exceed the structural or spatial capacity of the existing or approved tower or facility, as documented by a qualified engineer licensed to practice in the State of Vermont. Additionally, the existing or approved tower cannot be reinforced, modified or replaced to accommodate planned or equivalent equipment, at a reasonable cost, to provide coverage and capacity comparable to that of the proposed facility.

B. The proposed antennas and equipment would cause interference materially impacting the usefulness of other existing or permitted equipment at the existing or approved tower or facility as documented by a qualified engineer and such interference cannot be mitigated at a reasonable cost.

C. [This repeats the previous section.]

D. The proposed antennas and equipment, either alone or together with existing facilities, equipment or antennas, would create excessive radiofrequency exposure.

E. Existing or approved towers and structures cannot accommodate the planned equipment at a height necessary to function reasonably or are too far from the area of needed coverage to function reasonably as documented by a qualified engineer.

F. Aesthetic reasons make it unreasonable to locate the planned telecommunications equipment upon an existing or approved tower or building.

G. There is no existing or approved tower in the area in which coverage is sought.

H. Other unforeseen specific reasons make it unreasonable to locate the planned telecommunications equipment upon an existing or approved tower or building.

Towers must be designed to allow for future placement of antennas upon the tower and to accept antennas mounted at varying heights when overall permitted height allows. Towers shall be designed structurally and in all other respects to accommodate both the applicant's antennas and additional antennas when overall permitted height allows.

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A.	Location Map: a copy of a portion of the most recent USGS Quadrangle map showing the area within at least a two-mile radius of the proposed facility site.
B.	Vicinity Map showing the entire vicinity within a 2500-foot radius of the facility site, including the facility or tower, topography, public and private roads and driveways, buildings and structures, water bodies, wetlands, landscape features, historic sites and habitats for endangered species. It shall indicate the property lines of the proposed facility site parcel and all easements or rights of way needed for access from a public way to the facility.
C.	Proposed site plans of the entire development indicating all improvements including landscaping, utility lines, guy wires, screening and roads.
D.	Elevations showing all facades and indicating all exterior materials and color of towers, buildings and associated facilities.
E.	Computer generated photo simulations of the proposed facility showing the facility from all public rights-of -way and any adjacent property from which it may be visible. Each photo must be labeled with the line of sight, elevation and with the date taken imprinted on the photograph. The photos must show the color of the facility and method of screening.
F.	In the case of a proposed site that is forested, the approximate average height of the existing vegetation within 200 feet of the tower base.
G.	Construction sequence and time schedule for completion of each phase of the entire project.

A.	The proposed antennas and equipment would exceed the structural or spatial capacity of the existing or approved tower or facility, as documented by a qualified engineer licensed to practice in the State of Vermont. Additionally, the existing or approved tower cannot be reinforced, modified or replaced to accommodate planned or equivalent equipment, at a reasonable cost, to provide coverage and capacity comparable to that of the proposed facility.
B.	The proposed antennas and equipment would cause interference materially impacting the usefulness of other existing or permitted equipment at the existing or approved tower or facility as documented by a qualified engineer and such interference cannot be mitigated at a reasonable cost.
C.	[This repeats the previous section.]
D.	The proposed antennas and equipment, either alone or together with existing facilities, equipment or antennas, would create excessive radiofrequency exposure.
E.	Existing or approved towers and structures cannot accommodate the planned equipment at a height necessary to function reasonably or are too far from the area of needed coverage to function reasonably as documented by a qualified engineer.
F.	Aesthetic reasons make it unreasonable to locate the planned telecommunications equipment upon an existing or approved tower or building.
G.	There is no existing or approved tower in the area in which coverage is sought.
H.	Other unforeseen specific reasons make it unreasonable to locate the planned telecommunications equipment upon an existing or approved tower or building.