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A. Authorized by City Council: The City Council inay authorize an interim use of property. Interim use might not be consistent with the land uses designated on the adopted Land Use Plan. They might also fail to meet all of the zoning standards established for the district within which it is located. B. Conditions For Interim Use: The City Council may attach conditions to interim use permits. In reviewing interim use permit applications, the City will establish a specific date or event that will terminate the use on the property. The City Council will also determine that the approval of the interim use would not result in adverse effects on the public health, � safety and welfare and that it will not impose additional costs on the public if it is necessary for the public to take the property in the future. C. Application: Applications for interim uses shall be processed in the same manner as conditional use permits as established in Section �-8-�1014.01 of this Title. (Ord. 1086, 1-14-1991; amd. 1995 Code) �a1013.10: TOWER AND OTHER STRUCTURE HEIGHT AND PLACEMENT LIMITATIONS: A. Private and Commercial Antennas and Towers: 1. City-Owned Antennas and Towers: City-owned or controlled antennas and tower sites shall be a pernlitted use in B Business or I Industrial Districts and a conditional use in all other districts. 2. Private Antennas and Towers: Private (noncommercial) receiving or transmitting antennas and towers more than twenty feet (20') in height above the principal structure height in residential districts or more than fifty feet (50') in height above the principal structure height in business and industrial districts shall be a conditional use in all districts. 3. Commercial Antennas and Towers - City Sites: Commercial receiving or transmitting antennas and towers regardless of height or size with the exception of satellite dish antennas shall connect to and use the City tower sites if use of such facilities is technically feasible. 4. Commercial Antennas and Towers - Non-City Sites: Commercial receiving or transmitting antennas and towers not located on a City tower site shall be a conditional use. Commercial receiving or transmitting antennas and towers may only be located in B Business or I Industrial Districts. The City may establish permit review periods, tower termination, time limits or an amortization schedule specifying the year in which the tower shall be taken down by the applicant or assign. A performance bond or other surety may be required by the City in order to assure removal of the tower at a specific date. 5. Application: The applicant shall present documentation of the possession of any required license by any Federal, State or local agency. 6. Requirements: All antennas and towers and support structures including guy wires and foundations shall be subject to the appropriate requirements of subsection A8 of this Section and the setback requirements established for accessary structures in the applicable zoning district. Antennas, towers, guy wires and foundations, and support buildings shall be constructed on one lot or parcel and shall be set back a minimum of thirty feet (30') from any front property line. 7. Design: All antennas and towers shall be designed and screened as visually appropriate, shall utilize a City- approved gray or blue color, and shall contain no signage, including logos, except as may be required by any State or Federal regulations. 8. Existing Facilities: Existing transmitting and receiving facilities at the time of the adoption of this Section may remain in service. However, at such time as any material change is made in the facilities, full compliance with this Section shall be required. No transmitting or receiving antennas or towers may be added to existing nonconforming facilities. Towers and receiving facilities shall be dismantled and removed from the site within one year after abandonment of the use of the tower or facility for communication purposes. 9. Security Fencing: Security fencing for antennas and towers may include chainlink and barbed wire to a total height of eight feet (8') above grade. 10. Support Buildings: Support buildings to house switching and other communication equipment shall have a brick exterior, be a maximum of two hundred (200) square feet in size, twenty four feet (24') in height and have two (2) off-street, paved parking spaces. 11. Building Permit: A building permit shall be required far the construction of new antennas and/or towers and shall include wind loading and strength and footing calculations prepared by a Minnesota registered � •