West Point, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 70-466

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to all wireless communications facilities within the Town of West Point

Extracted standards

19 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Height

Lighting

  • Lighting restrictions

    Lighting installed at all WCFs, other than low-intensity lighting installed for the purpose of site security, shall be only that required to meet the minimum requirements set forth in the Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular AC 70/7460-1J.

Other

  • Anti-climbing device

    All towers, using alternative mounting structures, and camouflaged WCFs shall be equipped with an anti-climbing device.

  • Buffered WCF undisturbed buffer100 ft

    A minimum of a 100-foot undisturbed buffer of mature trees...

  • Shall be set back from any off-site existing residential structure no less than 200 feet.

  • Chain-link fence color

    Chain-link fences shall be of a black or green color.

  • Parabolic/dish antenna maximum extension5 ft

    All parabolic or dish antenna shall be no more than five feet measured to the outermost point of the dish from any surface of the existing structure at the point of attachment.

  • Equipment enclosure screening

    All equipment enclosures shall be screened from public view with fencing and landscaping unless the enclosure is of a similar design and material to that used for a single-family residence.

  • Landscaping plan

    All WCFs shall include a detailed landscaping plan with plan and profile views encompassing native tree buffer, native vegetation...

  • No fence shall exceed six feet in height and it shall contain no barb wire or similar barrier.

  • Panel antenna maximum extension from structure5 ft

    All panel antenna shall be no more than five feet measured to the outermost point of the panel antenna from any surface of the existing structure at the point of attachment.

  • Tower color

    Towers shall be gray in color unless otherwise approved by the zoning administrator.

  • All towers shall be set back from any off-site existing residential structure by no less than 200 feet.

  • All towers shall be located no closer than 200 feet from an occupied school or building used primarily for daycare.

  • Tower setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines as percentage of collapse radius110 pct

    All towers shall be set back from all property lines a minimum of 110 percent of the documented collapse radius.

  • Whip antenna maximum extension above mounting surface10 ft

    All whip antenna shall be no more than ten feet measured to the tip of the whip above the mounting surface of the existing structure at the point of attachment.

Signage

  • Signage on towers

    No signage of any kind shall be displayed at or on a tower that advertises a product, service or business activity or institution.

From the ordinance

All towers shall be set back from any off-site existing residential structure by no less than 200 feet. ... No fence shall exceed six feet in height and it shall contain no barb wire or similar barrier.
Sec. 70-466