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CITY OF CENTERVILLE SMALL WIRELESS FACILITY DESIGN GUIDELINES I. PURPOSE AND COMPLIANCE In implementing City Code, Chapter 93, the City Council of the City of Centerville (the "City") finds that in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens and to reasonably manage and protect the public rights-of-way (the "ROW") and its uses in the City, it is in the best interest of the City and its residents and businesses to establish Small Wireless Facility design Guidelines (the "Guidelines") to provide the aesthetic requirements and other specifications and reasonable conditions that small wireless facilities and wireless support structures installed within the public ROW must meet prior to and following installation. The objective of these Guidelines is to strike a balance between preserving and protecting the character of the City through careful design, siting, and camouflaging techniques to blend these facilities into their surrounding environment and provide other reasonable conditions upon such placement and use of the ROW, while enhancing the ability of small wireless facilities carriers to deploy small wireless facilities and wireless support structures in the City effectively and efficiently so that residents, businesses, and visitors benefit from ubiquitous and robust wireless service availability. These Guidelines apply to requests to locate small wireless facilities in the ROW and ongoing use of the ROW for such purposes. These Guidelines are established pursuant to City Code, Chapter 93 and applicable law. These Guidelines are administered through the permitting process contained therein as conducted by the Building Department. Placement or modification of a small wireless facilities and/or wireless support structures shall comply with these Guidelines at the time the permit for installation or modification is approved and as amended from time to time. Wireless service providers and permittees are required to comply with City Code, Chapter 93. II. DEFINITIONS The definitions contained in Minn. Stat. §237.162 are incorporated into this policy by reference as though fully set forth herein. III. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Prior to placing, installing, modifying, relocating or removing a small wireless facility or wireless support structure in the ROW, or to collocating a wireless facility on an existing wireless support structure in the ROW, the operator shall apply for and receive a permit from the City. In addition to the application requirements established in City Code 93, the information identified in this Section must be included for the application to be considered complete, except that where such information is already in the City's possession from previous applications, or where the applicant previously filed information and specification for standard materials that are being utilized in the new application, such information shall be reference but need not be 171