(1)

Pursuant to the authority conferred by Chapter 29 of Title 6 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, as amended and supplanted by all applicable laws, and to balance the interests of the residents of the city, wireless telecommunications providers, and wireless telecommunications customers in the siting of wireless telecommunications facilities within the city so as to protect the health, safety and integrity of residential neighborhoods and foster, through appropriate zoning and land use controls, a competitive environment for telecommunications carriers that does not unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent wireless services and shall not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the provision of wireless services, and so as to promote the city as a proactive city in the availability of personal wireless telecommunications service, the city council does ordain and enact into law the following regulations to be incorporated as new Chapter 23, Article XI—wireless telecommunications facilities, sections 23-163 to 23-193 of the City Code.

(2)

These regulations shall apply to the siting of all wireless telecommunications facilities, including small wireless facilities, as both terms are defined in section 24-2, except that approval for the siting of small wireless facilities in public rights of way, specifically, shall be governed by the small cell ordinance in Chapter 24 of the City Code.

(Ord. No. 21-21, § 3, 5-17-21)