Woodbine City Zoning Code

§ 26-66.1

Purpose.

[Added 6-16-2022 by Ord. No. 606-2022]

The purpose of this section is to establish provisions regulating the number, location, design, and construction of local communications facilities - including towers, antennas, equipment sheds, and appurtenances — in order to accommodate the personal and commercial needs of the citizenry while protecting the health, safety, vitality, and general welfare of the community and its environment. The goals of this section are:

To provide for adequate wireless communications throughout the entire municipality while minimizing the total number of communications towers;

To minimize the impact of local communications facilities, particularly towers, on areas of scenic and cultural significance to the municipality of communications towers;

To encourage the location of towers as are necessary in nonresidential and nonrecreational areas;

To require the use of existing towers and other structures as support platforms for local communications facilities to the extent consistent with the purpose and the other goals of this section;

To require the co-location of local communications facilities of competing providers in order to reduce the number of required towers;

To ensure that such towers are sited, constructed, and maintained in a manner which poses the fewest hazards to the general public as possible;

To distinguish between those Pinelands zoning districts wherein the maximum height of local communications facilities is restricted and those in which there is no such height restriction; and

To provide for the timely removal of local communications facilities and the restoration of the sites they occupied once they are permanently withdrawn from service.

Woodbine City Zoning Code

§ 26-66.1

Purpose.

[Added 6-16-2022 by Ord. No. 606-2022]

The purpose of this section is to establish provisions regulating the number, location, design, and construction of local communications facilities - including towers, antennas, equipment sheds, and appurtenances — in order to accommodate the personal and commercial needs of the citizenry while protecting the health, safety, vitality, and general welfare of the community and its environment. The goals of this section are:

To provide for adequate wireless communications throughout the entire municipality while minimizing the total number of communications towers;

To minimize the impact of local communications facilities, particularly towers, on areas of scenic and cultural significance to the municipality of communications towers;

To encourage the location of towers as are necessary in nonresidential and nonrecreational areas;

To require the use of existing towers and other structures as support platforms for local communications facilities to the extent consistent with the purpose and the other goals of this section;

To require the co-location of local communications facilities of competing providers in order to reduce the number of required towers;

To ensure that such towers are sited, constructed, and maintained in a manner which poses the fewest hazards to the general public as possible;

To distinguish between those Pinelands zoning districts wherein the maximum height of local communications facilities is restricted and those in which there is no such height restriction; and

To provide for the timely removal of local communications facilities and the restoration of the sites they occupied once they are permanently withdrawn from service.