12.18.020 Definitions.
"Accessory equipment" means any equipment associated with the installation of a wireless telecommunications facility, including but not limited to cabling, generators, fans, air conditioning units, electrical panels, equipment shelters, equipment cabinets, equipment buildings, pedestals, meters, vaults, splice boxes, and surface location markers.
"Antenna" means that part of a wireless telecommunications facility designed to radiate or receive radio frequency signals.
"Cellular" means an analog or digital wireless telecommunications technology that is based on a system of interconnected neighboring cell sites.
"Code" means the Wasco Municipal Code.
"Collocation" means the mounting or installation of transmission equipment on an eligible support structure for the purpose of transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency signal for communication purposes.
"COW" means a "cell on wheels," which is a wireless telecommunications facility temporarily rolled in or temporarily installed.
"Director" means the director of public works or planning, or his or her designee.
"Facility(ies)" means wireless telecommunications facilities.
"Ground-mounted" means mounted to a telecommunications tower.
"Located within the public right-of-way" includes any facility which in whole or in part, itself or as part of another structure, rests upon, in, over or under the public right-of-way.
"Modification" means a change to an existing wireless telecommunications facility that involves any of the following: collocation, expansion, alteration, enlargement, intensification, reduction, or augmentation, including, but not limited to, changes in size, shape, color, visual design, or exterior material. "Modification" does not include repair, replacement or maintenance if those actions do not involve a change to the existing facility involving any of the following: collocation, expansion, alteration, enlargement, intensification, reduction, or augmentation.
"Monopole" means a structure composed of a pole or tower used to support antennas or related equipment. A monopole also includes a monopine, monopalm and similar monopoles camouflaged to resemble faux trees or other faux objects attached on a monopole (e.g., water tower).
"Mounted" means attached or supported.
"Pole" means a single shaft of wood, steel, concrete or other material capable of supporting the equipment mounted thereon in a safe and adequate manner and as required by provisions of this code.
"Public right-of-way" means any public right-of-way as defined in Chapter 17.03, Definitions.
"Sensitive uses" means any residential use, public or private school, day care, playground, and retirement facility.
"Telecommunications tower" means a freestanding mast, pole, monopole, guyed tower, lattice tower, freestanding tower or other structure designed and primarily used to support wireless telecommunications facility antennas.
"Utility pole" means any pole or tower owned by any utility company that is primarily used to support wires or cables necessary to the provision of electrical or other utility services regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission.
"Wireless telecommunications facility," "facility" or "facilities" mean any facility that transmits and/or receives electromagnetic waves. It includes, but is not limited to, antennas and/or other types of equipment for the transmission or receipt of such signals, telecommunications towers or similar structures supporting such equipment, related accessory equipment, equipment buildings, parking areas, and other accessory development.
Exceptions: The term "wireless telecommunications facility" does not apply to the following:
1. Government owned and operated telecommunications facilities.
2. Emergency medical care provider-owned and operated telecommunications facilities.
3. Mobile services providing public information coverage of news events of a temporary nature.
4. Any wireless telecommunications facilities exempted from this code by federal law or state law.
"Wireless telecommunications services" means the provision of services using a wireless telecommunications facility or a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, and shall include, but not be limited to, the following services: personal wireless services as defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 at 47 U.S.C. Section 332(c)(7)(C) or its successor statute, cellular service, personal communication service, and/or data radio telecommunications. (Ord. 676 §1(2), 2016).