Section 6-906 Application Requirements
6-906.A. No new small cell wireless facility shall be installed, and no collocation of a small cell wireless facility may occur, except after a written application is reviewed and approved by the Planning Director and Historic Preservation Director. Some submittal requirements described herein may be satisfied through a master license agreement or similar authorization executed with the Town of Telluride.
6-906.B. The installation or collocation of a small cell wireless facility shall be completed no more than two (2) years from the approval date, unless an extension of no more than one (1) year is granted. An application for extension of the approval shall be submitted to the Planning Director and Historic Preservation Director no less than two (2) months prior to the expiration of the approval and the Planning Director and Historic Preservation Director shall act on such extension request prior to the expiration date.
6-906.C. An applicant shall submit a complete application. In addition to an application form, each applicant shall:
6-906.C.1. Demonstrate why other higher preference locations in the right-of-way are not feasible or are impractical. Each applicant is encouraged to explore locations for the facility based on the following list of preferences, subsection C.1.a of this Section being the highest preference and subsection C.1.g of this Section being the lowest preference.
a. Collocated on the building rooftop of public or private property.
b. New facility on the building rooftop of public or private property.
c. New facility mounted on the side of a building.
d. Collocated on an already established or approved small cell wireless facility in the right-of-way.
e. New small cell wireless facility in replacement of an existing street/pedestrian light and including an attached luminaire.
f. Alley locations in the right-of-way.
g. New stand-alone facility in the right-of-way.
6-906.C.2. Submit application submittal fee(s) per the fee schedule adopted annually by the Town Council.
6-906.C.3. Acknowledge that the Town retains the right to require an applicant to pay the actual fees and costs of any consultant engaged by the Town to assist in the review of plans, applications, reports, inspections, and/or testing.
6-906.C.4. Submit the report as required in Section 6-904.G of this Division.
6-906.C.5. Submit a scaled site plan, photo simulations (before and after), scaled elevation view, and line-of-sight drawing/rendering.
6-906.C.6. If the application is outside of public right-of-way, submit a letter and a lease, license, or other written permission from the owner of the site, including an affidavit from the owner of the property and from the applicant acknowledging that each is responsible for the removal of the facility should it be abandoned.
6-906.C.7. For any collocation on an existing support structure, submit documentation and confirmation that the existing support structure is appropriately sized and has sufficient strength to accommodate the small cell wireless facility infrastructure loadings.
6-906.C.8. Submit other supporting drawings, calculations, and other documentation, signed and sealed by appropriate qualified professionals, showing the location and dimension of all improvements, including information concerning topography, frequency coverage, new conduits, electrical items, heights, setbacks, adjacent uses, and other information deemed to be necessary to assess compliance with this Section.
6-906.C.9. For the first small cell wireless facility application submitted to the Town in a calendar year, submit a narrative and map description of the applicant’s existing or then-currently proposed small cell wireless facilities and network within the Town. If possible, this will include a before and after graphic or map showing coverage changes by the installation of the small cell wireless facility and network.
6-906.C.10. A wireless provider may file a consolidated application for small cell wireless facilities and receive a single approval for the consolidated application. The Town’s denial of any individual small cell wireless facility is not a basis to deny the application as a whole or any other small cell wireless facility incorporated within the consolidated application.
6-906.C.11. The application may identify an alternative location in the event the requested location is not approved.
6-906.C.12. The first completed application received by the Town shall have priority over applications received from different applicants for collocation on the same streetlight pole or wireless support structure. For all new pole installations, the Town retains the right to require a second applicant for the same general space to install a new pole capable of collocating both applicants internally in the pole, where technically feasible and financially reasonable. The first applicant is required to allow the subsequent applicant to replace the pole with a multi-cell pole. The original pole shall be made available to the installing applicant to salvage. If not retrieved in thirty (30) days, the pole shall be declared abandoned and disposed of.
6-906.D. Notice Requirements. Within fifteen (15) days of the issuance of the completeness letter by the Town, the following notice actions are required to be performed:
6-906.D.1. A twenty-four-inch (24") by thirty-six-inch (36") poster or smaller poster, whichever is more appropriate, will be placed at the location of the proposed facility or facilities to be up until a decision has been provided. The poster will include the following information:
a. A photo simulation of the proposed facility or facilities.
b. A brief description of the type of equipment and RF signal that is emitting from the facility or facilities.
c. Contact information for the applicant.
d. Contact information for Town staff.
6-906.D.2. A mailed notice to all property owners within three hundred (300) feet of the proposed facility or facilities. The mailed notice will include the information required by the on-site poster and shall additionally include text that better explains what a small cell wireless facility is and how it is regulated.
6-906.D.3. The Town of Telluride Planning Department will facilitate newspaper notice.
6-906.D.4. Location information shall be provided so that Town of Telluride Planning Department can update the location in a layer on GIS mapping identifying existing and pending small cell wireless facilities.
6-906.D.5. The Planning Department will assist the applicant in the provision of the required notices. All costs associated with the issuance of public notice shall be the responsibility of the applicant.