Is there another way to use zoning to regulate personal wireless service facilities?
Yes. The best zoning rewards the wireless carrier for locating facilities where the town wants the facilities to go and for the carrier designing facilities the way the town wants the facilities to look. Good zoning also discourages wireless carriers from locating facilities where the town does not want them and from designing facilities that will be intrusive or obtrusive. Good zoning should be flexible, and flexibility means creating standards by which facilities can be evaluated and approved. A zoning ordinance should cover all the possibilities and give the wireless carriers choices such as placing personal wireless service facilities in or on existing structures, placing them lower than trees, on utility poles, etc. Q: You seem to think there is much towns can do to regulate personal wireless service facilities, but many towns need to learn more. How can they do that? A: A good first step is to hold a workshop to educate town officials, town staff and citizens. The workshop should
