Sec. 656.1502. - Definitions.

For purposes of this Part, the following terms, words, and phrases shall have the following meanings: Antenna means a device used to receive or transmit radio frequency signals. Examples include, but are not limited to, whip antennas, panel antennas and dish antennas. Broadcast tower means a tower designed and constructed for the principal purpose of supporting one or more radio and/or television antenna, but also allowing for other secondary purposes such as those regulated by Part 15 of this Zoning Code, including two-way radio, paging, PCS, cellular and related wireless services. Camouflaged tower means any wireless communication tower that is designed to hide, obscure or conceal the presence of antennas and the tower. Examples include, but are not limited to, clock towers, bell towers, church steeples, utility poles, flag poles, light poles, tree towers, stadium lights and water towers. Collocation means the situation when a second or subsequent wireless provider uses an existing structure to locate a second or subsequent antennae. Conventional wireless tower means a monopole designed and constructed to support multiple antennas. This term does not include camouflaged towers, low impact/stealth towers, broadcast towers or amateur radio towers. Distance means, where used in connection with required setbacks and separation requirements, the distance from the center of a wireless communication tower. Environmentally sensitive lands means those areas of land or water which are determined necessary by the local government (based on locally determined criteria) to conserve or protect natural habitats and ecological systems, as more fully set forth in the City's 2010 Comprehensive Plan. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) means the federal agency charged with licensing and regulating wireless communications at the national level. Height means the vertical distance measured in feet from the ground level of the tower to its highest point, including any antenna or other appurtenances. Lattice tower means a nonmonopole tower of lattice construction. Low impact/stealth tower means a tapered monopole that is equipped with visually low impact antenna mounts of wireless communication service providers. Examples include, but are not limited to, low-profile mounts, close-mounts, cobra-mounts and side-arm antennas. Search ring means that area in which the antenna of a wireless communication service provider must be located in order to provide the provider's designed wireless communication service to a defined geographic area. Transportation view corridor means any public right-of-way, including roads, waterways and trails; provided, however, that this definition shall not include those public, unopened rights-of-way platted prior to 1968. Urban/suburban area boundary means that boundary depicted in the Future Land Use Map series of the City of Jacksonville 2010 Comprehensive Plan, identifying the separation between the rural/agricultural and urban/suburban areas of the City. Wireless Communications Coordinator ("the Coordinator") means the person charged with primary responsibility for coordinating the filing and processing of all wireless communication tower and antenna applications, maintaining a central database of all wireless communication towers and antennas located within the City and performing other duties as described in this Part. Wireless communications facility means any equipment or facility used to provide service and may include, but is not limited to, antennae, towers, equipment enclosures, cabling, antenna brackets, and other such equipment. Placing a wireless communications facility on an existing structure does not cause the existing structure to become a wireless communications facility. Wireless communication service provider means the holder of an FCC license to provide wireless telecommunication service, including, but not limited to, cellular, personal communication services (PCS), specialized mobilized radio (SMR), enhanced specialized mobilized radio (ESMR), paging and similar services that are marketed to the general public. Wireless communication tower means any structure designed and constructed for the purpose of supporting one or more communication antennas, including camouflaged towers, conventional wireless towers and low impact/stealth towers. This term does not include broadcast towers, amateur radio towers or those towers used solely for private-use dispatch purposes. (Ord. 2001-600-E, §§ 2, 3; Ord. 2001-1058-E, § 2; Ord. 2002-709-E, § 1; Ord. 2007-561-E, § 1; Ord. 2025-410-E , § 3)