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1 A. To provide for the location of communication towers and communication 2 antennas in the city; 3 B. To protect residential areas and land uses. from potential adverse impacts of 4 communication towers and antennas; 5 C. To minimize adverse visual impacts of communication towers and antennas through careful design, siting, landscape screening and innovative camouflaging techniques; 6 D. To accommodate the growing need for communication towers and antennas; 7 E. To promote and encourage shared use/collocation of existing and new 8 communication towers as a primary option, rather than construction of additional single -use towers; 9 10 F. To protect the public health, safety and welfare; and G. To avoid -potential damage to adjacent properties from tower failure through 11 engineering and careful siting of tower structures.' 12 Section 18.39.030 Applicability. 13 A. All new communication towers and communication antennas in the city shall be 14 subject to these regulations, as well as all other applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. For purposes of measurement, communication tower setbacks and 15 separation distances, as delineated in subsections C, D and E of Section 18.39.050, shall be calculated and applied irrespective of municipal and county jurisdictional boundaries. 16 B. All communication towers existing on April 30, 1998 shall be considered 17 permitted uses and allowed to continue their usage as they presently exist; provided, however, that anything other than routine maintenance shall comply with the requirements of Section 18 18.39.050, other than subsections C, D and E of that section. As used in this subsection, routine maintenance shall include, without limitation, structural modifications such as making 19 provisions for additional antennas or additional providers, as well as new construction on an existing communication tower. 20 C. All governmental towers with public safety systems or equipment shall be 21 exempt from the requirements of this chapter. 22 Section 18.39.040 Permitted communication towers and communication antennas in 23 zoning districts of city. 24 A. New communication towers and communication antennas may locate on existing utility structures, including existing communication towers, utility poles, utility 25 structures and water tanks, that are at least twenty-five feet in height. When located on such utility structures, communication towers and communication antennas shall: 26 1. Be integrated into the existing structure; 27 2. Not exceed fifty percent of the total height of the structure, however 28 communication towers/antennas placed on utility poles shall not exceed the height of the utility ORANGE\MXM\19901.1 _ 2 -