11-20-1997 Regular Meeting of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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~J ORDINANCE NO. 1501-_ Page 5 same time not unreasonably interfering with the development of the competitive wireless telecommunications marketplace in the City. Specifically, the purposes of this Article are: (a) To regulate the location of Towers and Telecommunications Facilities in the City; (b) To protect residential areas and land uses from potential adverse impact of Towers and Telecommunications Facilities; (c) To minimize adverse visual impact of Towers and Telecommunications Facilities through careful design, siting, landscaping, and innovative camouflaging techniques; (d) To promote and encourage shared use/collocation of Towers and Antenna Support Structures as a primary option rather than construction of additional single-use Towers; (e) To promote and encourage utilization of technological designs that will either eliminate or reduce the need for erection of new Tower structures to support antenna and Telecommunications Facilities; (f) To avoid potential damage to property caused by Towers and Telecommunications Facilities by ensuring such structures are soundly and carefully designed, constructed, modified, maintained, and removed when no longer used or are determined to be structurally unsound; and (g) To ensure that Towers and Telecommunications Facilities are compatible with surrounding land uses. Sec. 106-892. Development of Towers. (a) A Tower shall be a permitted use of land in zoning districts H-I. No person shall build, erect, or construct a Tower upon any parcel of land within a zoning district designated H-I unless a development permit shall have been issued by the development review committee of the City. Application shall be made to the development review committee in the manner provided in this chapter. (b) A Tower shall be a conditional use of land in zoning districts B-I and L-I. No person shall build, erect, or construct a Tower upon any parcel of land within any toning district set forth above unless a development permit shall have been issued by the development review committee of the City and approval of the City Planning and Zoning Commission is obtained.