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The purposes of this chapter are to set forth regulations for the permitting, management, placement, development, and removal of small wireless facilities. Among the purposes included are to:

(1) Permit and manage reasonable access to the right-of-way of the City for communication purposes on a nondiscriminatory basis.

(2) Establish clear and nondiscriminatory local guidelines and standards which use Federal guidelines for the exercise of local authority with respect to the regulation of right-of-way use.

(3) Conserve the limited physical capacity of the public rights-of-way held in public trust by the City.

(4) Ensure that all service providers maintaining facilities or providing services within the City comply with the ordinances, rules, and regulations of the City.

(5) Ensure that the City can continue to fairly and responsibly protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

(6) Minimize potential adverse visual, aesthetic, and safety impacts of small wireless facilities.

(7) Encourage the design of such small wireless facilities to be aesthetically and architecturally compatible with the surrounding built and natural environments where possible.

(8) Encourage the collocation or attachment of small wireless facilities on existing support structures to help minimize the total number and impact of such structures throughout the community. (Ord. 03-19 § 2 (Exh. A))