1. General Provisions applicable in all permitted zoning districts:
(a) All lots must conform to the area requirements of the zoning district.
(b) For all towers, the site shall be of sufficient size to provide the setback required in the underlying zoning district between the base of the tower, accessory structures and uses, and guy anchors, if any, to all ABUTTING property lines, except that the widths of certain yards shall be as follows:
(i) The minimum setback between telecommunications towers and all property lines shall be a distance equal to fifty (50) percent of the height of the tower, or the requires setback of the underlying zoning district, whichever is greater.
(ii) Telecommunications towers shall be set back a minimum of fifty (50) feet from any existing or planned right-of-way; and
(iii) Telecommunications towers shall be set back a minimum of one hundred (100) feet, or fifty (fifty) percent of the tower height, whichever is greater, from the lot line of any adjacent residential use or zoning district.
(c) The Telecommunications facility shall be fully automated and unattended on a daily basis, and shall be visited only for periodic maintenance.
(d) Access to the Telecommunications facility shall be provided on driveways that meet the standards established in Chapter 174 "Subdivision and Land Development " from the Code of the Township of Marshall.
(e) Maximum tower height shall be two hundred (200) feet. TELECOMMUNCATIONS Equipment building height shall be regulated by the building height requirements of the underlying zoning district.
(f) Roof-mounted Telecommunications facility antenna shall not exceed thirty-five (35) feet above the maximum building height upon which it is mounted.
(g) Where technically feasible, all new towers shall be designed to accommodate shared-use of the tower.
(h) The following bufferyards shall be required of Telecommunications Facilities:
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Table 1 Required Bufferyards for TELEcommunications Facilities | |||||||||
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CR |
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SR |
MDR |
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OSPC |
PORBP |
PIP |
HC | |
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Required Bufferyard |
E |
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E |
E |
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E |
B |
B |
B |
(i) All equipment associated with roof-mounted Co-location/Shared Use Facilities, except for antenna(e), must be located so as to not be visible from adjoining properties, or screened from view.
(j) Guy anchors, if used, may be located within the required landscape areas as long as the minimum setback is maintained.
(k) A six (6) foot high security fence shall completely surround the tower (and guy wires if used) and TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT building.
(l) The tower shall be designed and constructed to all applicable standards of the American National Standards Institute, ANSI/EIA-222-E manual, as amended. All applications for development of a telecommunications facility shall verify compliance with these standards.
(m) A soil report complying with the standards of Appendix I: Geotechnical Investigations, ANSI/EIA-222-E, as amended, shall be submitted to the Township, sealed by a registered soils engineer, to document and verify the design specifications of the foundation for the tower, and anchors for the guy wires if used.
(n) Towers and ANTENNAE shall be deigned to withstand wind gusts of at least one-hundred (100) miles per hour.
(o) Upon the order of the Board of Supervisors, all tower structures shall be dismantled and removed from the premises within one (1) year of their ABANDONMENT, obsolescence or cessation of use.
(p) Power Mount facilities, (antennae mounted on electrical transmission towers) shall be permitted as a conditional use in the PIP and HC Districts where permitted by the utility or property owner.
(q) No tower or antenna may be lighted with strobe lights unless the applicant has been mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to do so. The applicant must present the Board of Supervisors with any FAA requirements in regard to lighting of the tower.
2. Required Sharing of New Towers. All new towers shall be designed to structurally accommodate the maximum number of additional users technically practicable, but in no case less than the following:
(a) At least one two-way radio antenna for every ten (10) feet of the tower, or at least one two-way radio antenna for every twenty (20) feet of the tower and at least one microwave facility.
(b) Such other combination as found by the Board of Supervisors to provide the maximum possible number of foreseeable users.
(1) Such requirements may be reduced if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) provides a written statement that no more licenses for those broadcast frequencies that could use the tower will be available in the foreseeable future.
(2) Such requirements may be reduced if the size of the tower required significantly exceeds the size of the existing towers in the area and would therefore create an unusually onerous, visual impact that would dominate and alter the visual character of the area when compared to the impact of other existing towers. This provision is only to be applied in unusual circumstances not resulting from the applicant's action or site selection unless no other site is possible.
