Wireless Telecommunication Land Use Planning

The purpose and intent of a Master Telecommunications Land Use Plan parallel the goals and objectives of other comprehensive plans such as: traffic flow, roadway improvements, annexation studies and extensions of water and sewer lines. The master planning process applies the land-use planning strategies of the local ordinance to the industry related radio frequency engineering standards to create an illustrative planning tool that coincides with the underlying zoning. This is accomplished by identifying existing tower locations and signal coverage conditions; comparing this information to the standards of the ordinance; and a series of evaluations founded on land-use principals and engineering practices. The end result is a planning tool that offers strategies to reduce tower extraneous infrastructure by improving the efforts to merge wireless deployment thereby minimizing tower proliferation by increasing shared sites.

CityScape staff has over 100 year’s collective experience in radio frequency engineering, legal processes, site location and design technology. While we represent the local government in managing its telecommunication infrastructure, we do so armed with the background to provide fair service to the carriers in full accordance with the Telecommunication Act of 1996, including state and local codes and ordinances.

CityScape will protect the aesthetics and property values of your jurisdiction by helping to controlling the number of future telecommunications sites that are located in your community.
Sites in the Master Wireless Plan can be developed under a simplified process that might not require special exceptions or public hearings.

While CityScape offers a wide range of planning and management services in connection with wireless facilities, CityScape's primary goal is to ensure that every new telecommunications site constructed is designed in a manner to ensure maximum usage of the site by as many providers as feasible, thus effectively reducing the total number of towers or support structure needed in the community.