AESTHETICS – Shall mean a term of art rather than demonstrable fact that should not be used in the evaluation or denial of a PWSF application.

ANTENNA – Shall mean a whip (omnidirectional antenna), panel (direction antenna), disc (parabolic antenna) or similar device used for transmission and/or reception of radio frequency signals. An antenna alone is not a PWSF.

ANTENNA ARRAY – Shall mean an antenna array one or more whips, panels, discs, or similar devices used for the transmission or reception of radio frequency signals, which may include omnidirectional antennas (whips), directional antennas (panels), and parabolic antennas (discs). The antenna array does not include the mount as defined herein.

APPLICANT – Shall mean a person or entity with an application before the City for a permit for a PWSF. The applicant must be a carrier, a landowner where the facility will be located or the proposed owner of the facility. A carrier must be either the applicant or the co-applicant on each application. If the proposed PWSF is for two or more carriers, each carrier must file its own application as either the applicant or co-applicant.

AGL (ABOVE GROUND LEVEL) – Shall mean the actual height of the PWSF from the ground to the highest part of the mount or the antenna, whichever is higher. Beacons, lightning rods and other appurtenances are included in this calculation.

CAMOUFLAGE – Shall mean a way of painting and mounting a PWSF that requires minimal changes to the host structure in order to accommodate the facility.

CARRIER – Shall mean a company licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide personal wireless services. A tower company, a tower management firm or a tower builder is not a carrier.

CELLULAR – Shall mean a mobile telephone service operating in the 800 MHz spectrum.

CITY – Shall mean City of Compton, California.

CO-APPLICANT – Shall mean a person or entity that joins with an applicant in an application before the City for a permit for a PWSF. The co-applicant can only be a carrier, a landowner where the facility will be located or the proposed owner of the facility. A carrier must be either the applicant or the co-applicant on each application. If the proposed PWSF is for two or more carriers, each carrier must file its own application as either the applicant or co-applicant.

CO-LOCATION – Shall mean the use of a common support structure or common site by two or more PWSFs or by one carrier for more than one type of communications technology. A single carrier mounting on a structure for any other use, such as electrical transmission or distribution, is not co-location.

COMMERCIAL MOBILE RADIO SERVICES (CMRS) – Shall mean per section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which amended Section 332(c)(7)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934, any of several technologies using radio signals at various frequencies to send and receive voice, data and video. These services include Cellular PCS, paging, Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio and Specialized Mobile Radio.

COMMON CARRIER WIRELESS EXCHANGE SERVICES – Shall mean those services which initiate, relay or terminate a local exchange carrier's or competitive local exchange carrier's telephonic message via a wireless connection.

CONCEAL – Shall mean to enclose a PWSF within a natural or man-made feature resulting in the facility being either invisible or made part of the feature enclosing it.

DESIGN – Shall mean the appearance of PWSFs such as their materials, colors and shape.

DISGUISE – Shall mean to design a PWSF to appear to be something other than a PWSF.

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM (DAS) – Shall mean a system combining fiber optic transport and PWSFs. That part of a DAS that transmits or receives a personal wireless service carrier's signal is a PWSF and is governed by this section.

ELEVATION – Shall mean the measurement of height above sea level. Also AMSL, or above mean sea level.

ENHANCED SPECIALIZED MOBILE RADIO (ESMR) – Shall mean private land mobile radio with telephone services.

EQUIPMENT CABINET/EQUIPMENT SHELTER – Shall mean an enclosed structure at the base of the mount within which are housed the equipment for the PWSF such as batteries and electrical equipment.

FALL ZONE – Shall mean the area on the ground within a prescribed radius from the base of a PWSF. The fall zone is the area within which there might be a potential hazard from falling debris or collapsing material.

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) – Shall mean an independent Federal agency charged with licensing and regulating wireless communications at the national level.

FUNCTIONALLY EQUIVALENT SERVICES – Shall mean cellular, PCS, Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio and Specialized Mobile Radio. Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act prohibits unreasonable discrimination among functionally equivalent services.

HEIGHT – Shall mean the distance measured from ground level to the highest point of PWSF, including the antenna array. For purposes of measuring height, all antennas or other attachments mounted on a structure shall be included in the measurements to determine overall (i.e. combined) height.

LATTICE TOWER – Shall mean a type of mount that is usually ground-mounted and self-supporting with multiple legs and cross-bracing of structural steel. This section prohibits lattice towers, other than those already existing at the time this section is adopted.[1]

LOCATION – Shall mean the area where a PWSF is located on proposed to be located.

MITIGATION – Shall mean the reduction or elimination of visual impacts by the use of one or more methods:

MODIFICATION – Shall mean the changing of any portion of a PWSF from its description in a previously approved permit. This includes upgrading to different technologies such as "3G" and name changes of the carriers. The FCC definitions for "modification" are different than local government rules.

MONOPOLE – Shall mean the shape of mount that is self-supporting with a single shaft of wood, steel or concrete and antennas at the top and/or along the shaft.

MOUNT – Shall mean the structure or surface upon which antennas are mounted, e.g.:

PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE FACILITY (PWSF) – Shall mean a facility for the provision of personal wireless services, as defined by Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which amended Section 332(c)(7)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934. A PWSF is any unstaffed facility for the transmission and/or reception of personal wireless services, usually consisting of an antenna array, transmission cables, equipment shelter and a mount. The transmission or reception portion of a Distributed Antenna System is a PWSF and is governed by this section.

PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICES – Shall mean any personal wireless service defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act which includes Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed commercial wireless communications services including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), specialized mobile radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), paging as well as unlicensed wireless services, and common carrier wireless exchange access services.

RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATION (RFR) – Shall mean the emissions from PWSFs that can, in excessive amounts, be harmful to humans. RF emissions are part of the RF signal.

RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) SIGNAL – Shall mean the actual beam or radio waves sent and received by a PWSF. A signal is the deliberate product of a PWSF and an RF emission is part of the signal.

SECURITY BARRIER – Shall mean a locked, impenetrable wall, fence or berm that completely seals an area from unauthorized entry or trespass.

SHORT MOUNTS – Shall mean alternatives to monopoles or guyed and lattice towers, such as masts or poles. For example, two poles or three masts might be an alternative to one monopole.

SITE – Shall mean that portion of a subject property where a PWSF is to be placed. Any acceptable location may have several potential sites within it.

SITING – Shall mean the method and form of placement of PWSFs on a specific area of a subject property.

SPECIALIZED MOBILE RADIO (SMR) – Shall mean a form of dispatch or two-way communication used by companies that rent space or time from an SMR carrier. Used primarily for data, delivery vans, truckers or taxis within a small, definable geographic area.

STANDARDS – Shall mean rules or measures by which acceptability is determined. PWSFs are measured by standards measuring visibility or safety. Wireless planning tends to regulate PWSFs on three levels: location (or where the PWSF site can go), siting (or how the PWSF is placed within its setting) and design (or what the PWSF looks like).

TOWER – Shall mean a term used as a modifier (e.g., tower builder) or when modified (e.g., lattice tower). PWSFs are not towers.

UNLICENSED WIRELESS SERVICES – Shall mean commercial mobile services that can operate on public domain frequencies and therefore need no FCC license for their sites. Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are examples of unlicensed wireless services.

UTILITY POLE – Shall mean for purposes of this section, any public, semi-public or quasi-public vertical element in the City, such as a distribution pole for electricity, a cable pole, a traffic signal stanchion or a light pole. All short mounts in the right-of-way shall be new utility poles and all new utility poles shall be dedicated to the City of Compton.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS – Shall mean any form of signaling by wireless, including personal wireless services, that require a transmitter, a receiver, and a path - sometimes straight, sometimes indirect - between them.