Wireless Facilities: Policy Options and Recommendations Cell City, USA

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Wireless Facilities Policy Options and
Recommendations Cell City, USA

• Consultants
• Kathy Cacciola, Andrew Dhuyvetter and Jeremy
  Latimer
• September 12, 2005

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City Profile

• Medium size city on East Coast (pop 150,000)
• Predominantly mid-low income neighborhoods
• Mix of Industry Business
• Varied topography deciduous vegetation
• Wireless Facility Policy
• Policy non-existent
• Increase in applications

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Objectives

• Address concerns for interested parties
• Review legal rights
• Telecommunications Act (TCA)
• Visibility, Property Values and
• Uniform Standards
• Discuss options
• Provide recommendations
• Enable city to formulate a plan

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Concerns

• What should Cell City do with all these requests?
• What will be built?
• How many will be built?
• How does this affect Cell City?
• Does Cell City have to allow facilities to be
  built?

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Telecommunications Act of 1996

• Allows wireless growth permits localities to
  regulate
• May deny specific sites, if wireless service is
  not compromised
• May not regulate based upon Radio Frequency
  emissions
• Denied requests required in writing

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City Priorities
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Potential Impacts
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Potential Impacts
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Potential Impacts
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Policy Options

• Preferred, avoidance and prohibited areas
• Co-location, concealment, camouflage and design
• Size and number of facilities (e.g. one large vs.
  many small)
• Cluster vs. disperse

• Application/Fee Structure
• Revenue generation from leasing
• Environmental regulations
• Regionally applicable

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Policy Recommendations

• Application/Fee Structure
• Revenue generation from leasing
• Environmental regulations
• Regionally applicable

• Preferred, avoidance and prohibited areas
• Co-location, concealment, camouflage and design
• Size and number of facilities (e.g. one large vs.
  many small)
• Cluster vs disperse

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Policy Recommendations

• Craft policy sensitive to city-wide impact
• (Visibility, Property Values, Uniform Standards)
• Develop an application and fee structure
• Tier 1 Locate facility on public property using
  existing structures
• Tier 2 Locate facility on private property using
  existing structures
• Tier 3 Locate freestanding facility on public or
  private property (for use by multiple carriers)

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Summary

• These policy recommendations create an
  opportunity to
• Address multiple factors within one standard
  (Visibility, Property Values and Uniform
  Standards)
• Generate revenue through rental sites and
  application fees
• Streamline processing and decrease administrative
  costs
• Allow regional application

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