§ 75-1. Legislative intent.

This chapter is enacted in order to assure access of our local residents to telecommunications technologies while at the same time maintaining the aesthetic qualities of our neighborhoods, scenic locales and historic areas, preventing the uncontrolled proliferation of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, ensuring meaningful input by the community into important land use decisions, encouraging cooperation between telecommunications providers and resulting in the fewest possible intrusions on traffic, streets and sidewalks. This chapter is intended to minimize the aesthetic impacts of wireless communications facilities by encouraging the exploration of alternatives that use methods to disguise or camouflage the facilities, by minimizing the height of the facilities, by encouraging collocation of facilities and by locating facilities on existing structures whenever possible. This chapter is not intended to prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the provision of personal wireless services, nor to discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent services.