Definitions
A. Cellular communications antenna array shall mean the antenna or antennae from which wireless radio signals are sent and received by a personal wireless service facility as defined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It may, at the discretion of the the planning board, include no more than 12 antennae in one array and one microwave antenna for the exclusive use of the carrier in transmitting its own signals. It may also include an equipment shelter as an accessory use. A cellular or other communications antenna array may be public or private.
(1) Public cellular communications antenna array shall mean any antenna used exclusively for governmental functions and owned by the United States of America, the state, or the town, or any political subdivision duly authorized to own and operate a cellular communications array.
(2) Private communications antenna array shall mean any antenna used for a private purpose and owned by a private person, partnership, corporation, organization, association or any entity subject to taxation.
B. Cellular communications tower shall mean a free-standing structure used for the location of one or more cellular communications antenna arrays. It may, where necessary, include an equipment shelter of no more than 120 square feet in floor area as an accessory use. A cellular communications tower may be public or private.
(1) Public cellular communications tower shall mean any tower structure used exclusively for a governmental function and owned by the United States of America, the state, or the town, or any political subdivision duly authorized to own and operate a cellular communications tower.
(2) Private communications tower shall mean any tower used for a private purpose and owned by a private person, partnership, corporation, organization, association or any entity subject to taxation.
C. Co-location shall mean use of a common cellular or other tower or common site by two or more license holders or by one license holder for more than one type of communications technology.
D. Equipment shelter shall mean an enclosed structure, cabinet, shed or box used as an accessory to a cellular communications antenna array to house electrical equipment, batteries and emergency electrical generators, directly related to such antenna array. No other uses, including storage, shall be permitted in any equipment shelter.
E. Height shall mean the distance measured from ground level to the highest point on a cellular communications tower including the cellular communications antenna array.
F. Other communications tower shall include broadcast television or radio and other non-cellular telecommunications towers. This use includes above grade towers, including self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers or monopole towers or similar structures more than 35 feet in height for communications equipment and principally intended for the transmittal or reception of commercial, governmental, and related radio, television, and similar telecommunication signal of a non-cellular nature.
G. Alternative tower structure means man-made trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles and similar alternative-design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.
(Ord. of 8-7-00; Ord. of 12-4-2023(1))