Applicability

No cellular communications antenna array or cellular communications tower shall be erected, constructed, altered or maintained on any lot within the Town after the effective date of this article, without complying with the terms of this article. Nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit or regulate any public antenna or cellular communications tower used in the exercise of a governmental function.

• A. A cellular communications antenna array shall be allowed as of right on any existing structure within the zones specified in § 185-8, Schedule of Use Regulations Table. The height of any cellular communications antenna array shall not exceed the height of such existing structure by more than 12 feet.
• B. Any cellular communications antenna array exceeding the height of the existing structure by more than 12 feet shall require a special use permit.
• C. A cellular communications tower shall be permitted as a special permit use or permitted use within the zones so specified in § 185-8, Schedule of Use Regulations Table, and provided that the height of such new tower shall not exceed 150 feet in height. Any cellular communications tower exceeding 150 feet in height shall require a special use permit.
• D. No cellular communications antenna array shall be permitted within any Residential Zone, or any Conservation District or Wildlife Refuge District, or any Open Space Zone, except by special use permit in accordance with § 185-73.
• E. Cellular communications towers shall only be permitted by special use permit in the following zones: GI, RE, and LM.

  [Amended 12-4-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-12]

• F. An application for a dimensional variance from the specifications in this section may be made in conjunction with a special use permit for a cellular communications antenna array or cellular communications tower.