Provide for required communications infrastructure, while minimizing the negative impacts of that infrastructure and preserving and protecting the scenic quality of the community;

Encourage and maximize the shared use of existing towers, buildings, and other appropriate structures for co-location of communications antennas;

Ensure that new communications towers and antenna arrays will be safe, suitably placed and blend into the environment;

Encourage location of communications towers and antennas in areas where the adverse impact is minimized;

Enhance the ability of the providers of communications services to provide such services to the community quickly, effectively and efficiently; and

Protect the public health, safety and welfare.

Mounted base station antennas and pole mounted antennas under 50 feet in height;

Hobby-use ham radio antennas under 50 feet in height;

Residential satellite dishes; and

Government and public safety antennas.

Towers shall be designed and constructed to all applicable standards of the American National Standards Institute, ANSI/EIA-222-F, as amended.

Towers shall be designed to accommodate no fewer than four antennas. Single antenna towers may be allowed when circumstances arise that are justified by the applicant.

Tower height, inclusive of vertical antennas, shall be kept to the minimum necessary height for operational effectiveness and shall be limited to a maximum of 20 feet higher than the height limit in the applicable zoning district.

Towers shall either have a locked anti-climbing device installed on the tower, or be completely enclosed by a locked protective fence at least six feet in height with barbed wire at the top or similar devices to prevent climbing.

Towers shall have at least one sign at the base of the tower warning of possible electrical shock or high voltage. At least one sign shall be placed at the access entrance of the street identifying that the driveway is private including emergency contact information. Sign sizes shall not exceed three square feet. Lighting shall not conflict with Federal Aviation Administration requirements. Other exterior site lighting shall be prohibited unless necessary for security and shall not glare onto any adjacent properties or rights-of-way.

All mechanical or electrical equipment must be locked and properly secured in a communications equipment building to prevent unauthorized access. all service lines for electric or other cable wires shall be placed underground or overhead so to be compatible with service utilities in the area.

Towers shall be finished with nonreflective surface treatment. Materials shall not detract from the surrounding community appearance. Towers are encouraged to be designed to appear as trees, farm silos, and natural features if feasible. The appearance of the towers and associated antennas shall be designed to achieve minimal visual impact.

A tower shall be positioned in such a manner that it cannot collapse onto adjacent property or create a safety hazard. Adjacent property includes land of others with or without buildings and streets.

Tower design, including all associated facilities and supporting structures, guy wires, wind load, ground connections/anchors, etc., shall be based on sound engineering practices.

There shall be room for maintenance vehicles to maneuver on the property where a tower is located. Vehicles parked at the facility shall not impede traffic on adjoining roadways. The cartway accessing to tower shall be surfaced with a mud-free durable gravel surface or with a better surface. Grade of access drive shall not be more than a fifteen-percent slope. All stormwater runoff shall be designed in compliance with applicable stormwater runoff regulations.

Towers shall comply with all other applicable federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances.

The applicant shall provide to the Borough a tower removal performance bond. This bond shall remain with the Borough until the tower is removed and may be invoked upon failure by the tower owner to remove an abandoned tower. The amount of the bond shall be 110% of the estimated cost to remove the abandoned tower. A qualified registered professional engineer shall prepare the cost estimate, which shall be subject to approval by the Borough Engineer. The Borough, at its discretion, may direct the tower owner to prepare a new cost estimate to increase the amount of the performance bond in succeeding years to account for inflation of removal costs.

Antennas shall not be located on any single-family detached dwelling, two-family dwelling, townhome or multifamily complex.

Antennas shall comply with all applicable standards that govern human exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (NIER) emitted from antenna(s) shall not result in an exposure, at any point on or outside such facility, exceeding the lowest applicable exposure standards established by any federal, state or local law, rule, regulation or ordinance.

Antennas shall not interfere with reception in nearby residential areas.

All antennas shall comply with applicable FCC regulations to address noninterference on normal reception of other radio wavelengths used by aircraft, boats, etc.

Antenna height shall be kept to the minimum necessary height for operational effectiveness and shall be limited to a maximum of 20 feet higher than the height limit in the applicable zoning district.

Antennas shall be finished with nonreflective surface treatment.

Antennas shall comply with all other applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations and ordinances.

A permit application for a communications tower shall contain the following information:

A permit application for communications antenna(s) shall contain the following information:

When co-location of an antenna is not proposed, the applicant shall provide all of the following:

Except as otherwise prohibited in this Part, communications antennas may be attached to any existing building or structure in all zoning districts, including without limitation large hotel buildings, municipal or governmental buildings, water towers, any agricultural building such as silos, and electrical transmission towers. Communications antennas shall not be located on any existing structures where expressly prohibited.

Communication antennas shall be permitted to exceed the height limit of the applicable zoning district by no more than 20 feet when located on an existing building.

When the use of an existing structure is proposed, the applicant shall submit evidence from a qualified registered professional engineer certifying the proposed installation will not exceed the structural capacity of the existing building or other structure, considering wind and other loads associated with antenna placement. A hold harmless agreement to indemnify the Borough of liability shall be provided.

Antennas located on existing structures and buildings shall be architecturally compatible with respective buildings/structures. Antennas shall be designed to blend into the community when located on existing buildings/structures. A detailed construction and elevation drawing shall be submitted to indicate the antenna mounting on the structure or building to ascertain how it will be seen in the community viewed from ground level.

The applicant shall secure all agreements and/or easements necessary to provide access to the building or structure on which the antennas are to be located so that installation, operation and maintenance of antennas can be accomplished.

Antennas located on existing structures and buildings shall comply with all other applicable provisions of this Part.

All communications towers and communications antennas shall be regularly maintained and inspected by a properly qualified professional at least annually for structural safety as a condition of permit validity.

A communications tower shall be considered abandoned when the owner ceases maintaining or using it. Upon abandonment, the tower and all associated equipment shall be dismantled and removed from the property within 90 consecutive calendar days of notice from the Zoning Officer. At the discretion of the Borough, enforcement proceedings and/or invocation of the tower removal bond may occur if the subject tower is not timely removed.

The following shall be provided by the applicant (at the applicant's expense) to the Zoning Officer:

Landscape plants to screen the mass of the tower base shall be installed wherever the tower base, with or without the fence enclosure, is located within any distance up to the corresponding height adjacent to any residential structure, institutional structure, public school, public park, or public street.

Landscape plants to screen vehicle access, installed solely for the tower, shall be installed along the access drive length. The plants for screening need not be installed when agricultural field operations would be hindered.

The Zoning Officer, in his or her discretion, may accept existing plants that are retained to provide the effect of the required vegetative screening.

Existing wooded areas, tree lines and hedgerows adjacent to the facility shall be preserved except for site access and site construction of a communications tower.