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Newtown City Zoning Code

§ B70-4.04.3

Emergency service communication uses.

"Emergency Service Communication Facilities" shall mean communication equipment intended for the exclusive use of municipal and state emergency services, including police, public safety and fire services. There shall be allowed and permitted as a second or additional use of a parcel within the Borough, by special exception, upon the joint application of the property owner and the municipal agency affected, and upon the conditions contained in this section, the installation, maintenance and use of Emergency Service Communication Facilities, upon a showing, in addition to the requirements for a special exception, that:
A. 
there is a specific articulated public safety need for such facilities that will be addressed and resolved by the installation, maintenance and use of the proposed Facilities,
B. 
the proposed physical components of the Facility impose the least burden on the neighborhood in which they are installed and on the environment when considered in light of the foreseeable useful life of the technology in relation to the reasonable growth needs of the town,
C. 
the installation, existence, maintenance and operation of the Facility will neither create nor increase a safety, quality of life or health problem,
D. 
the proposed Facility is the best feasible solution to address and resolve the stated safety problem.
The application for the particular Facility and use shall:
A. identify the applicants,
B. identify, with particularity, the public safety problem to be addressed and resolved by the proposed Facility,
C. describe, with particularity, the physical components required and proposed to address and resolve the stated safety problem, and
D. describe other measures considered by the agency to resolve the safety problem which would not require a special exception under this section, and the reasons why the proposed Facility presents a solution that is sufficiently superior to the others as to justify an exception to the general prohibition of multiple uses for properties.
Any special exception granted pursuant to this section shall be for the use and the Facility described in the application. Any addition or expansion of such Facility is hereby prohibited in the absence of a subsequent exception granted pursuant to this section.