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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />RVPUB\SRC\39304 <br />18.39.020 Purpose and Intent. <br />The regulations and requirements set forth herein are adopted for the following purposes: <br />A. To provide for the location of communication towers and communication antennas <br />in the City of Colton; <br />B. To protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse impacts of <br />communication towers and antennas, <br />C. To minimize adverse visual impacts of communication towers and antennas through <br />careful design, siting, landscape screening, and innovative camouflaging techniques; <br />D. To accommodate the growing need for communication towers and antennas; <br />E. To promote and encourage shared use/collocation of existing and new communication <br />towers as a primary option, rather than construction of additional single -use towers; <br />F. To protect the public health, safety and welfare; and <br />G. To avoid potential damage to adjacent properties from tower failure through <br />engineering and careful siting of tower structures; <br />18.39.030 Applicability. <br />A. All new communication towers and communication antennas in the City of Colton <br />shall be subject to these regulations, as well as all other applicable federal, state and local laws, rules <br />and regulations. For purposes of measurement, communication tower setbacks and separation <br />distances, as delineated in subsections (C), (D) and (E) of Section 18.39.050, shall be calculated and <br />applied irrespective of municipal and county jurisdictional boundaries. <br />B. All communication towers existing on April 30, 1998 shall be considered permitted <br />uses and allowed to continue their usage as they presently exist; provided, however, that anything <br />other than routine maintenance shall comply with the requirements of Section 18.39.050, other than <br />subsections (C), (D) and (E) of that Section. As used in this subsection, routine maintenance shall <br />include, without limitation, structural modifications such as making provisions for additional <br />antennas or additional providers, as well as new construction on an existing communication tower. <br />C. All government towers with public safety systems or equipment shall be exempt from <br />the requirements of this Chapter. <br />-2- <br />