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<br />(2) Minimize adverse visual effects of communications and antennae through <br />careful design, siting, landscape screening and innovative techniques of <br />camouflage; and <br />(3) Encourage collation or shared use to reduce the number of <br />communication antennae needed within municipal limits. <br /> <br />(4) Protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare of the residents <br />of the City of Sunny Isles Beach. <br /> <br />(5) Enhance the ability of providers of telecommunications services to do so <br />through an efficient and timely application process. <br /> <br />(6) Limit the provision of telecommunication facilities to antennae mountings <br />to avoid the potential hazards of free standing tower structures and in <br />coastal high hazard flood area. <br /> <br />(b) In furtherance of these goals, the City shall at all times give due consideration to <br />the City's Master Plan, Zoning Map, existing land uses and environmentally sensitive areas, <br />including hurricane preparedness areas, and/approving sites for the location of towers and <br />antennas. <br /> <br />Section 3. Definitions. <br /> <br />Antenna as used herein shall mean a transmitting and/or receiving device used in <br />telecommunications that radiates or captures electromagnetic waves, digital signals, <br />analog signals, radio frequencies, wireless communications signals and other <br />communication signals, including directional antennae, such as panel and microwave dish <br />antennae, whip and omnidirectional antennae, but excluding radar antennae, amateur <br />radio antennae and satellite earth stations. <br /> <br />Communication tower as used herein shall mean a monopole, self-supporting/lattice <br />tower or guyed tower, constructed as a free-standing structure, containing one or more <br />antennae intended for transmitting or receiving television, AM/FM radio, digital, <br />microwave, cellular, telephone, or similar forms of electronic communication, excluding <br />radar towers, amateur radio support structures and satellite earth stations. <br /> <br />Monopole tower as used herein shall mean a free standing communication tower <br />consisting of a single pole or spire supported by a permanent foundation, construction <br />without anchored guy wires. <br /> <br />Lattice tower as used herein shall mean a self-supporting communication tower, other <br />than a monopole tower, that is constructed without guy wires and ground anchors. <br /> <br />Wireless Telecommunications Ord. <br /> <br />3 <br />