18.20.070 Other use categories.
A. Agricultural Uses. [Reserved]
B. Communication Transmission Facility Uses.
1. Characteristics. All devices, equipment, machinery, structures or supporting elements necessary to produce nonionizing electromagnetic radiation and operating as a discrete unit to produce a signal or message. Towers may be self-supporting, guyed, or mounted on poles or buildings.
2. Examples. Broadcast towers and antennas; wireless communication towers and antennas; point-to-point microwave towers and antennas; emergency communication broadcast towers and antennas.
3. Accessory Uses. Transmitter facility buildings.
4. Exceptions.
a. Receive-only antennas are not included in this category.
b. Shortwave radio towers for personal use are regulated as an accessory use.
c. Radio and television studios are classified in the office category. Their broadcast towers are classified as communication transmission facilities and are regulated as a separate principal use. [Ord. 966 § 2 (Exh. B), 2021; Ord. 846 § 2 (Exh. B); Ord. 817 § 8-3B.270, 2006.]