A. Antenna: An antenna is a specific device which is used to transmit and/or receive radio-frequency signals, microwave signals, or other signals transmitted to or from other antennas for commercial purposes.

B. Antenna Array: An antenna array is two (2) or more devices used for the transmission or reception of radio frequency signals, microwave or other signals for commercial communications purposes.

C. Applicant: An applicant is any person, firm or entity seeking to place a personal wireless service facility within the boundaries of the city.

D. Camouflaged: Camouflaged means the use of shape, color and texture to cause an object to appear to become a part of something else, usually a structure, such as a building, wall or roof. Camouflaged does not mean "invisible", but rather "appearing as part or exactly like the structure used as a mount.”

E. Co-location: Co-location means the placement and arrangement of more than one (1) provider’s antennas and equipment on a single support structure.

F. Concealment: Concealment means fully hidden from view. For example, a personal wireless service facility is concealed when it is completely hidden or contained within a structure, such as a building, wall or roof.

G. Developed Street: Developed street means any public right-of-way classified as an alley, access street, collector street, minor arterial, or principal arterial, which is partially or fully developed and devoted to transportation use by the public at large.

H. Planning Agency: Planning Agency means the Planning Agency or his or her designee.

I. Disguised: Disguised means that a personal wireless service facility is changed to appear to be something other than what it really is. For example, personal wireless service facilities are sometimes disguised to appear as trees or flagpoles.

J. EIA: EIA means the Electronic Industries Association.

K. Equipment Enclosure: Equipment enclosure means a structure, shelter, cabinet, box or vault designed for and used to house and protect the electronic equipment necessary and/or desirable for processing wireless communication signals and data, including any provisions for mechanical cooling equipment, air conditioning, ventilation, or auxiliary electric generators.

L. FAA: FAA means the Federal Aviation Administration.

M. Facility: Facility means a personal wireless service facility.

N. FCC: FCC means the Federal Communications Commission.

O. Guyed Tower: Guyed tower means a vertical support structure which consists of metal crossed strips or bars, and is steadied by wire guys in a radial pattern around the tower.

P. Height: Height means the vertical distance measured from pre-existing ground level to the highest point on the personal wireless service facility, including, but not limited to the antenna or antenna array.

Q. Lattice Tower: Lattice tower means a wireless communication support structure that consists of metal crossed strips, bars, or braces, forming a tower which may have three (3), four (4), or more sides.

R. Licensed Carrier: Licensed carrier means any person, firm or entity licensed by the FCC to provide personal wireless services and which is in the business of providing the same.

S. Monopole Tower or Monopole: Monopole means a vertical support structure, consisting of a single vertical metal, concrete or wooden pole, typically round or square, and driven into the ground or attached to a foundation.

T. Mount: Mount means any mounting device or bracket which is used to attach an antenna or antenna array to a street pole, building, structure, monopole, or tower.

U. Panel Antenna: Panel antenna means a directional antenna designed to transmit and/or receive signals in a directional pattern which is less than three hundred sixty degrees (360°), typically an arc of approximately one hundred twenty degrees (120°);

V. Personal Wireless Services: Personal wireless services means any of the technologies as defined by Section 704(a)(7)(c)(i) of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, including Cellular, Personal Communications Services (PCS), Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR), Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR), and Paging.

W. Personal Wireless Service Facilities: Personal wireless service facilities means any unstaffed facility for the transmission and/or reception of personal wireless services.

X. Street Pole: Street pole means a telephone, electric, or cable television pole located in a developed street.

Y. Whip Antenna(s): Whip antenna(s) means an omni-directional antenna(s) designed to transmit and/or receive signals in a three hundred sixty degree pattern.