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Personal wireless service facility (PWSF) means an unstaffed communications facility for the transmission and/or reception of wireless communications services, usually consisting of an antenna array, transmission cables, an equipment shelter and a support structure to achieve necessary elevation. • Setback shall refer, with respect to a support structure, the required distance from the center of the support structure to the applicable property line of the parcel on which a communications facility is located. Support structure means a structure (other than an attachment structure) designed and constructed specifically to support a communications facility, and may include alternative towers, monopole towers, self-supporting or lattice towers, and other similar structures. Tower, alternative. An alternative tower means a support structure that camouflages or conceals the presence of the antenna array, equipment shelter and other apparatus for a PWSF or other communications facility, to an extent that the communications facility is either invisible or otherwise made an integrated part of the feature enclosing it. Examples of an alternative tower structure include, but are not limited to: clock towers, bell towers, church steeples, water towers, and light poles. Tower, communications refers to a support structure. Tower, guyed. A guyed tower means a monopole or lattice tower support structure that is secured and stabilized by diagonal cables (guy wires) anchored to the ground or other surface. Tower, lattice. A lattice tower is a support structure which is self-supporting with multiple legs and cross - bracing of structural steel. Tower, monopole. A support structure consisting of a single pole, constructed without any guy wires and ground anchors. • Tower, self-supporting. A support structure that is self-supporting with a single shaft of wood, steel or concrete and antennas or other communications facilities at the top. Wireless communications means any personal wireless services, as defined in the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which includes FCC licensed commercial wireless telecommunications services, including cellular, personal communications services (PCS), specialized mobile radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobile radio (ESMR), and paging, as well as unlicensed wireless services and common carrier wireless exchange access services, and similar services that currently exist or that may in the future be developed. The term does not mean the provision of direct -to -home satellite services, as defined in section 303(v) of the Act. Sec. 34-684. Applicability (a) A communications facility or tower which was completely constructed on a site prior to February 20, 2001, in any zoning district, shall be considered a conforming use. (b) A communications facility, in any zoning district, which has received city approval in the form of either a building permit, site plan approval or special use permit, but which has not yet been constructed or placed into operation on February 20, 2001, shall be considered an existing, conforming use if the building permit, site plan approval or special use permit remains valid, and has not expired. (c) Placement of an attached communications facility on a legally non -conforming structure shall not be considered an expansion of the non -conforming structure. (d) This article shall supercede conflicting requirements contained in other city zoning or site plan • ordinances regarding the siting and permitting of communications facilities. Page 3 of 13