Applicability
No cellular or other communications antenna array or cellular or other communications tower shall be erected, constructed, altered or maintained on any lot with the town after the date of enactment of this amendment on August 7, 2000, without complying with the terms of this section. Nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit any previously existing public antenna or cellular communications tower used solely in the exercise of a governmental function. This ordinance does not apply to towers or antennas under 70 feet in height that are owned and operated by a federally licensed amateur radio station operator or used exclusively for receive only antennas.
A. A cellular or other communications antenna array may be allowed by special use permit on an existing nonresidential structure within the zones specified article II, section 2.4 of this ordinance, the zoning use table, provided that the height of such cellular or other communications antenna array shall not exceed the height of such existing structure by more than 12 feet if omni-directional or whip type [5] antennae are used, and by not more than six feet if direction or panel type antennae are used.
(Ord. of 8-7-00; Ord. of 12-4-2023(1))
--- (5) ---"Omni-directional" or "whip type antenna" is an antenna designed to receive and/or transmit signals in a 360-degree pattern, up to 12 feet in height or length, and approximately five inches in diameter.
Directional or panel type antenna is an antenna designed to receive and/or transmit signals in a directional pattern which is less than 360 degrees, typically an are of approximately 120 degrees.