07-28-2025 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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§ 6.12.1620 ORONO CODE accommodate both the emergency warning siren and the telecommunications antenna. The existing emergency siren towers can be replaced with towers with a maximum height of 75 feet, with the condition that the tower accommodates both the emergency warning siren and the telecommunications antenna. The city may also require the tower to have the capability of accommodating one additional carrier's antenna. 2. A new emergency warning siren tower location, selected by the city to meet its emergency warning needs, could also be used as a telecommunications antenna site through co -loca- tion of the warning siren and antenna. The standards set out in subsection (3)d.1 of this sec- tion also apply to a siren tower in a new location. 3. The height of a tower can be no higher than the minimum height required to address a gap in coverage. 4. The setback of a tower from a property line must, at minimum, be equal to the height of the tower, except where an existing emergency warning siren is located on a site that does not enable this setback to be provided. 5. A carrier must demonstrate through an engineering analysis that there is a gap in coverage. 6. At the city's discretion, a tower must be designed to structur- ally enable co -location by another carrier, and the car- rier must agree to allow co - location. CD6:72 7. The carrier must provide computer -generated photos showing the views (as selected by the city) with and without the tower. 8. All consultant analysis and legal analysis related to the towers and the lease of the towers shall be paid by the carrier. 9. The carrier is required to provide coverage maps to demonstrate the specific gap in coverage and need for an additional tower and antenna, and to demonstrate there are no existing tower options within a radius of two miles that could accommodate the carrier's antenna needs. 10. The size of the cabinets on the ground needed to house the support equipment for the antennas is limited to the minimum necessary size, as determined by the city council. Appropriate vegetative screen- ing of ground cabinets shall be provided by the carrier, subject to approval by the city council. The council at its discretion may allow the use of non - vegetative screening methods such as berming, fencing, etc. 11. Stealth -type antennas (cylindri- cal), versus an array of panels, are required if the technology is available. 12. Only monopole towers are allowed. (4) Places of worship, provided that all build- ings and structures, except columbaria, are located at least 50 feet from any adjacent property zoned for residential use. (5) Planned residential development, limited to detached single-family dwellings only and subject to the limitations of division 10 of this article.