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17 <br />8a Water tower. — A water storage tank, a standpipe, or an elevated tank <br />situated on a support structure originally constructed for use as a reservoir or <br />facility to store or deliver water. <br />(9) Wireless facility. — The set of equipment and network components, exclusive <br />of the underlying wireless support structure or tower, including antennas, <br />transmitters, receivers, rfs--base stations, power supplies, cabling, and <br />associated equipment necessary to provide wireless data and wireless <br />telecommunications services to a discrete geographic area. <br />(10) Wireless support structure. — A new or existing structure, such as a <br />monopole, lattice tower, or guyed tower that is designed to support or <br />capable of supporting wireless facilities. A utility pole is not a wireless <br />support structure. <br />applications to construct, modify, or maintain wireless support structures, or construct, modify, <br />maintain, or collocate wireless facilities on a wireless support structure based on consideration <br />of land use_ public safety and zoning considerations_ including aesthetics_ landscaping_ <br />"§ 153A- 349.52. Construction of new wireless support structures or substantial <br />modifications of aff- hies fin wireless support structures. <br />fFe"e o of v,ir -eless f,,eilities <br />(b) Any person that proposes to construct a new wireless support structure or <br />substantially modify a wireless support structure ^r ,, 4eless f edit. within the planning and <br />land -use jurisdiction of a county must do both of the following: <br />(1) Submit a completed application with the necessary copies and attachments to <br />the appropriate planning authority. <br />(2) Comply with any local ordinances concerning land use and any applicable <br />permitting processes. <br />(c) A county's review of an application for the plaeemefit lacement or <br />construction of a new wireless support structure or substantial modification of a '€less <br />faei wireless support structure shall only address public safety, land development, or <br />zoning issues. In reviewing an application, the county may not require information on or <br />evaluate an applicant's business decisions about its designed service, customer demand for its <br />service, or quality of its service to or from a particular area or site. A county may not require <br />or additional wireless capacity. A county may not require proprietary, confidential, or other <br />business information to justify the need for the new wireless support structure, including <br />propagation maps and telecommunication traffic studies. In reviewing an application the county <br />may review the following: <br />(1) Applicable public safety, land use, or zoning issues addressed in its adopted <br />regulations, including aesthetics, landscaping, land -use based location <br />priorities, structural design, setbacks, and fall zones. <br />(2) Information or materials directly related to an identified public safety, land <br />development or zoning issue including evidence that no existing or <br />SL2013 -185 Session Law 2013 -185 Page 7 <br />