18A.95.220 Design zones for small wireless facilities and deployments on pedestrian poles.
A. The following zones are designated as design zones for the purpose of siting small wireless facilities:
1. All City-owned parks within the City.
2. All Urban Design Focus Area Districts as defined in Lakewood Comprehensive Plan Chapter 4, Urban Design and Community Character.
B. The City discourages the use of pedestrian poles for small wireless facilities that would have a negative aesthetic impact to the City’s streetscape.
C. Any applicant who desires to place a small wireless facility in a design zone must first demonstrate that the applicant cannot locate the small wireless facility outside of the design zone. Applications for new small wireless facilities in a design zone may be approved if the applicant demonstrates that due to technical infeasibility the applicant cannot locate the proposed small wireless facility on an existing or replacement pole within five hundred (500) feet of the proposed site and outside of the design zone.
D. Applications for small wireless facilities within design zones or on pedestrian poles are subject to approval by the Director and must comply with a concealment element design described in LMC 18A.95.250. [Ord. 726 § 2 (Exh. B), 2019.]