06.04 Small Wireless Facility Design Guidelines

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The following are the least preferred areas for new small wireless facilities in the order of preference(2 being least preferable). 1. Residential Districts 2. Parks D. CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATE LOCATIONS The City reserves the right to propose an alternate location for a small wireless facility and/or wireless support structure to the location proposed in the application within one hundred feet of the proposed location or within a distance that is equivalent to the width of the ROW in or on which the small wireless facility and/or wireless support structure is proposed, whichever is greater,which the operator shall use if it has the right to use the alternate loca.tion on reasona.ble terms and conditions and the alternate location does not impose technical limits or additional costs. E. GUIDELINES ON PLACEMENT The City desires to promote cleanly organized and streamlined facilities using the smallest and least intrusive means available to provide wireless services to the community. Generally, a small wireless facility and/or wireless support structure shall match and be consistent with the materials and finish of the wireless support structure, adjacent City poles, and of the surrounding area adjacent to their location. In the absence of adjacent City poles,the wireless support structure shall match the materials and finish of the adjacent utility poles. The following additional guidelines on placement shall apply: 1. Small wireless facilities and wireless support structures sha11 be located no closer than 150 feet away,radially, from another small wireless facility and wireless support structure. 2. A combination wireless support structure and streetlight pole should only be located where an existing pole(usually Crow Wing Power or Minnesota. Power) can be removed and replaced, or at a new location where it has been identified that a streetlight is necessary. 3. Small wireless facilities and wireless support structures shall be located in a manner that does not impede,obstruct, or hinder usual public pedestrian or , vehicular travel or public safety on a ROW. 4. Small wireless facilities and wireless support structures shall be located in a manner that does not obshuct the legal use of a ROW by a utility provider. 6