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195 CELL TOWERS CRLL TOWERS Great Batrington Personal ~treless Service Facilities and Tmvers By-Law Services; b) they are not intended to bo used to unr~onably discriminate among provider~ of fun~onally equivalent 8~rvices; I § 171- 120.Purposes: c) they do not regulate Personal Wh-eless Sea~i~ on. tho Tho purposes of this Personal Wireless Service Facilities and the environmental effects of radio frequency _e~_iSsions to the Towers Article are to:. ' extent that the regulated Services and Facilities comply with the A. Preserve the. character and appearance of the Town while FCC°s regulations concerning such emissions. simultaneously allowing Adequate Personal Wireless Services to be developed. This language allows the St)GA to demonstrate that B. Protect the scenic, historic, environmental, and natural or man- they were cognizant of the federal law and are made resources of the community, striving to comply with it. C. Provide standards and requirements for regulation, placement, construction, monitoring, design, modification, and removal of m § 171-122. Det'mition,s and word usage; Personal Wireless Service Facilities. As us~ in this Personal Wireless Se,~vice Facilities Article,, the D. Provide a procedural basis'for action within a reasonable folio.wing terms shall have the meaning~ indicated. TI~ word period'oftime for requests for authorization to place, construct, "shall" or "will" indicate mandatory requirom~ "may" is operate or modify Personal Wireless Service Facilities. advisory and indicates recommendations which are not mandatory. E. Pre~ze prop,my.values. ACT - The Telecommunications Act of 1996. F.-.-Minimize the total number and height of Towers throughout ADEQUATE COVERAGE - Coverage'is considered to be · the community. "adequate" within that area surrounding a Base Station (3- Loc, at Towers so that they do not have negative impacts, such the predicted .or measured median field strength of ' as, but not limited: to, attractive nuisance, noise and falling transmitted signal is'greater than -95 dBm- It is accep~l for obj~::ts, on the general safety, ' welfare and quality of'life of the there to be holes within tho area of Adequate Coverage whore .. community, the signal is less than -95 dBm, as long as tbo ~ regains its H..Require owners of Towers and Personal Wireless Service strength to greater'than -95 dBm furtho' away fix)m tho Facilities to configure them so as t° minimize and mitigate the t Station. For tho limited purpose of~ ~ th~ mo adverse visual impact'ofthe Towers and Facilities. of a Re~,,ater.is n~,~ssary or desirable,, the~ shall be I. Require Tower sharing and the clustering of Personal Wireless i not to bo Adequate .Coverage within said holes. Th~ outer Service Facilities Where possible. ".f boundary of the area of.Ad~uate Coveaage~ however, is that . ,4 listing of purtx~$ is useful because it tells your "'""'~i location past which tho signal does not regain a stren~ of Special Permit Granting ~uthority ($PG, d) what it '~ greater than-95 dBm. is trying to accomplish, and gives it the reasons it ~ The te!elcommunications ' _m~___,_sa~ was upset that the needs ~ it is going to deny the permit. It also town defined its own signal strengik &tch a right addre, xses one of the Telecomm ~ct issues ~ timely has subsequently been reserved to the towns and con~.'deratior~ upheld in federal case law in Sprint ~ectt~ v. Igillotlt It is FF_J~. important that YOU deftt~ tl~ ii § 171-121. Consi.ntency with Federal Law: level of signal strength tlgtt is'adequate. ~ is an ~ r~.nml,,_ations are intended to bo consistent with'The .engineering detail. DO 3102'I~TIltE ~ Telecommunications Act of 1996 in that: a) they do not prohibit or · DF, FINE EITH~ ADEQ~I.4TE COFERACtE OR hav~ tl~?~-~'oct of prohibiting the. provision of Per~oaal Wirele~ :. ', ~" ADEQ~r,4TE CAPACITY! You hav~ the right t~ ~'