REQUESTED CONDITIONAL USE:
The Applicant is seeking Conditional Use approval to construct a 150 foot monopole telecommunications tower in a High Density Mixed -Use (HDMU) zoning district.
RELEVANT AUTHORITY:
Land Development Code of Escambia County, Florida (Ordinance 96-3 as amended), Section: 3-2.9.c.4.j and Section: 4-7.12.a
j. Public utility structures exceeding the district structure height limit and telecommunications towers of any height, excluding any industrial uses.
a. General. In zoning districts where telecommunications towers are allowed, either generally as a "public utility structure" or specifically as a telecommunications tower, most require conditional use approval by the BOA to exceed the district or other height limit. Such approval is required of all towers in some districts. For the purposes of this section, a telecommunications tower is a pole or similar structure designed to support one or more antennas in a fixed location for transmitting or receiving commercial wireless communications signals. Towers limited to amateur radio, VHF marine, or similar non-commercial operations are not included.
CRITERIA:
Land Development Code of Escambia County, Florida (Ordinance 96-3 as amended), Section 4-7.12 |