1. Ground-mounted equipment in the rights-of-way is prohibited, unless such facilities are placed underground or the applicant can demonstrate that pole-mounted or undergrounded equipment is technically infeasible. If ground-mounted equipment is necessary, then the applicant shall submit a concealment element plan. Generators located in the rights-of-way are prohibited.

2. No equipment shall be operated so as to produce noise in violation of Chapter 8.26 BMC.

3. Small wireless facilities are not permitted on traffic signal poles unless denial of the siting could be a prohibition or effective prohibition of the applicant’s ability to provide telecommunications service in violation of 47 USC §§ 253 and 332.

4. Replacement poles and new poles shall comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), city construction and sidewalk clearance standards, city ordinances, traffic warrants, and state and federal laws and regulations in order to provide a clear and safe passage. Further, the location of any replacement or new pole must: be physically feasible; not interfere with utility or safety fixtures (e.g., fire hydrants, traffic control devices); and not adversely affect the public welfare, health, or safety.

5. Vertical clearance shall be reviewed by the public works director to ensure that the small wireless facilities will not pose a hazard to other users of the rights-of-way.

6. Replacement poles shall be located as near as possible to the existing pole with the requirement to remove the abandoned pole.

7. No signage, message, or identification other than the manufacturer’s identification or identification required by governing law is allowed to be portrayed on any antenna or equipment enclosure. Any permitted signage shall be located on the equipment enclosures and be of the minimum amount required to achieve the intended purpose (no larger than four by six inches); provided, that signs are permitted as concealment element techniques where appropriate and safety signage is permitted as required by applicable laws or regulations.

8. Antennas and related equipment shall not be illuminated unless necessary for security reasons, required by a federal or state authority, or approved as part of a concealment element plan.

9. Side arm mounts for antennas and unified enclosures must be the minimum extension necessary and may be no more than 12 inches off the pole.

10. The preferred location of a small wireless facility on a pole is the location with the least visible impact as determined by the community development director.

11. Antennas, equipment enclosures, and ancillary equipment, conduit, and cable shall not visually dominate the structure or pole upon which they are attached.

12. Except for locations in the right-of-way, small wireless facilities are not permitted in the residential zones on any residential structure or on any property containing a single-family residential use.

13. The city may consider the cumulative visual effects of small wireless facilities mounted on poles within the rights-of-way when assessing proposed siting locations so as to not adversely affect the visual character of the city. This provision shall not be applied to limit the number of permits issued when no alternative sites are reasonably available nor to impose a technological requirement on the applicant.

14. These design standards are intended to be used solely for the purpose of concealment and siting. Nothing herein shall be interpreted or applied in a manner that dictates the use of a particular technology. When strict application of these requirements would unreasonably impair the function of the technology chosen by the applicant, be technically infeasible, or otherwise have the effect of prohibiting service, alternative forms of concealment or deployment that provide similar or greater protections from negative visual impacts to the streetscape may be permitted at the discretion of the director.

15. Upon adoption of a city standard small wireless facility pole design(s) within the Bothell Standards, an applicant shall first consider using or modifying the standard pole design to accommodate its small wireless facility without substantially changing the outward visual and aesthetic character of the design. The applicant, upon a showing that use or modification of the standard pole design is either technically or physically infeasible, or that the modified pole design will not comply with the city’s ADA, sidewalk clearance requirements and/or would violate electrical or other safety standards, may deviate from the adopted standard pole design and use the design standards as further described in subsections B and C of this section.

1. The applicant shall minimize the antenna and equipment space and shall use the smallest amount of enclosure technically necessary to fit the equipment and antennas. The antennas and equipment shall be located using one or more of the following methods:

2. All conduit, cables, wires, and fiber must be routed internally in the pole. Full concealment of all conduit, cables, wires, and fiber is required within mounting brackets, shrouds, canisters, or sleeves if attached to exterior antennas or equipment.

3. An antenna on top of an existing pole may not extend more than six feet above the height of the existing pole and the diameter may not exceed 16 inches, measured at the top of the pole, unless the applicant can demonstrate that more space is technically needed. The antenna shall be integrated into the pole design so that it appears as a continuation of the original pole, including being colored or painted to match the pole, and if technically feasible shall be shrouded or screened to blend with the pole, except for canister antennas which shall not require separate shrouding or screening. All cabling and mounting hardware/brackets from the bottom of the antenna to the top of the pole shall be fully concealed and integrated with the pole.

4. Any replacement pole shall substantially conform to the design of the pole it is replacing or the neighboring pole design utilized within the contiguous right-of-way.

5. The height of any replacement pole may not extend more than 10 feet above the height of the existing pole or the minimum additional height necessary; provided, that the height of the replacement pole cannot be extended further by additional antenna height.

6. The diameter of a replacement pole shall comply with the city’s setback and sidewalk clearance requirements and shall, to the extent technically feasible, not be more than a 25 percent increase of the existing nonwooden pole diameter measured at the base of the pole, unless additional diameter is needed in order to provide demonstrated need for structural stability or to conceal equipment or conduit within the base of the pole, and shall comply with the requirements in subsection (A)(4) of this section.

7. Unless specifically authorized through a site-specific lease agreement with the city to install a new pole in the right-of-way for a small wireless facility, the use of a pole in the right-of-way for the siting of a small wireless facility shall be considered secondary to the primary function of the pole. If the primary function of such pole serving as the host site for a small wireless facility becomes unnecessary, the pole shall not be retained for the sole purpose of accommodating the small wireless facility and the small wireless facility and all associated equipment shall be removed.

1. The wooden pole at the proposed location may be replaced with a taller pole for the purpose of accommodating a small wireless facility; provided, that the replacement pole shall not exceed a height that is a maximum of 10 feet taller than the existing pole, unless a further height increase is required and confirmed in writing by the pole owner and that such height extension is the minimum extension necessary to provide sufficient separation and/or clearance from electrical and wireline facilities.

2. A pole extender may be used instead of replacing an existing wooden pole but may not increase the height of the existing pole by more than 10 feet, unless a further height increase is required and confirmed in writing by the pole owner and that such height increase is the minimum extension necessary to provide sufficient separation and/or clearance from electrical and wireline facilities. A “pole extender” as used herein is an object affixed between the pole and the antenna for the purpose of increasing the height of the antenna above the pole. The pole extender shall be painted to approximately match the color of the pole and shall substantially match the diameter of the pole measured at the top of the pole.

3. Replacement wooden poles must either match the approximate color and materials of the replaced pole or shall be the standard new wooden pole used by the pole owner in the city. Alternatively, the applicant may replace the wooden pole with a nonwooden pole with permission of or as required by the pole owner; provided, that the new pole is hollow and incorporates internal power and fiber conduit for the small wireless facility.

4. Antennas, equipment enclosures, and all ancillary equipment, boxes, and conduit shall be colored or painted to match the approximate color of the surface of the wooden pole on which they are attached.

5. Antennas shall not be mounted more than 12 inches from the surface of the wooden pole.

6. Antennas should be placed in an effort to minimize visual clutter and obtrusiveness. Multiple antennas are permitted on a wooden pole; provided, that each antenna enclosure shall not be more than three cubic feet in volume.

7. A canister antenna may be mounted on top of an existing wooden pole, which may not exceed the height requirements described in subsection (C)(1) of this section. A canister antenna mounted on the top of a wooden pole shall not exceed 16 inches in diameter, measured at the top of the pole, and shall be colored or painted to match the pole. The canister antenna must be placed to look as if it is an extension of the pole. In the alternative, the applicant may propose a side mounted canister antenna, so long as the inside edge of the antenna is no more than 12 inches from the surface of the wooden pole. All cables shall be concealed either within the canister antenna or within a sleeve between the antenna and the wooden pole.

8. An omni-directional antenna may be mounted on the top of an existing wooden pole, provided such antenna is no more than four feet in height and is mounted directly on the top of a pole or attached to a sleeve made to look like the exterior of the pole as close to the top of the pole as technically feasible. All cables shall be concealed within the sleeve between the bottom of the antenna and the mounting bracket.

9. The furthest point of any antenna or equipment enclosure may not extend more than 28 inches from the face of the pole, unless such extension is technically necessary. Any equipment or antenna enclosures must meet WSDOT height clearance requirements.

10. All related equipment mounted on wooden poles, including but not limited to ancillary equipment, radios, cables, associated shrouding, microwaves, and conduit, shall not be mounted more than six inches from the surface of the pole, unless a further distance is technically required.

11. Equipment for small wireless facilities must be attached to the wooden pole, unless otherwise permitted to be ground-mounted pursuant to subsection (A)(1) of this section. The equipment must be placed in the smallest enclosure possible for the intended purpose. The equipment enclosure and all other wireless equipment associated with the utility pole, including wireless equipment associated with the antenna and any preexisting associated equipment on the pole, may not exceed 28 cubic feet. The applicant is encouraged to place the equipment enclosure behind any banners or road signs that may be on the pole; provided, that such location does not interfere with the operation of the banners or signs.

12. An applicant who desires to enclose both its antennas and equipment within one unified enclosure may do so; provided, that such enclosure is the minimum size necessary for its intended purpose and the enclosure and all other wireless equipment associated with the pole including wireless equipment associated with the antenna and any preexisting associated equipment on the pole does not exceed 28 cubic feet. The unified enclosure may not be placed more than six inches from the surface of the pole, unless a further distance is technically necessary or required by the pole owner. To the extent possible, the unified enclosure must be placed either so as to appear as an integrated part of the pole or behind banners or signs; provided, that such location does not interfere with the operation of the banners or signs.

13. The visual effect of the small wireless facility on all other aspects of the appearance of the wooden pole shall be minimized to the greatest extent possible.

14. The use of the wooden pole for the siting of a small wireless facility shall be considered secondary to the primary function of the pole. If the primary function of a pole serving as the host site for a small wireless facility becomes unnecessary, the pole shall not be retained for the sole purpose of accommodating the small wireless facility and the small wireless facility and all associated equipment shall be removed.

15. The diameter of a replacement pole shall comply with the city’s setback and sidewalk clearance requirements and shall match the standard wood pole of the utility pole owner.

16. All cables and wires shall be routed through conduit along the outside of the pole. The outside conduit shall be colored or painted to match the pole. The number of conduit shall be minimized to the number technically necessary to accommodate the small wireless facility.

1. Small wireless facilities may be mounted to the sides of a building if the antennas do not interrupt the building’s architectural theme.

2. The interruption of architectural lines or horizontal or vertical reveals is discouraged.

3. New architectural features such as columns, pilasters, corbels, or other ornamentation that conceal antennas may be used if they complement the architecture of the existing building.

4. Small wireless facilities shall utilize the smallest mounting brackets necessary in order to provide the smallest offset from the building.

5. Skirts or shrouds must be utilized on the sides and bottoms of antennas in order to conceal mounting hardware, create a cleaner appearance, and minimize the visual impact of the antennas. Exposed cabling/wiring is prohibited.

6. Small wireless facilities shall be colored, painted, and/or textured to match the adjacent building surfaces or shall be colored or painted a natural, nonreflective color so as to blend in with the surroundings.

1. Each strand-mounted facility, including antennas and equipment, shall not exceed three cubic feet in volume.

2. Only one strand-mounted facility is permitted per cable between any two existing poles.

3. The strand-mounted facility shall be placed as close as possible to the nearest utility pole, in no event more than five feet from the pole unless a greater distance is technically necessary or is required by the pole owner for safety clearance.

4. No strand-mounted facility shall be located in or above the portion of the roadway open to vehicular traffic.

5. Ground-mounted equipment to accommodate a strand-mounted facility is not permitted except when placed in preexisting equipment cabinets.

6. Pole-mounted equipment shall comply with the requirements of subsections A and C of this section.

7. Strand-mounted facilities must be installed to cause the least visual impact and without excess exterior cabling or wires (other than the original strand).

8. Strand-mounted facilities are prohibited on cables strung between nonwooden poles.

1. New Poles within the Rights-of-Way.

2. New Pole Designs.