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(18) Licensed Engineer. All construction plans, specifications, and reports <br /> concerning the requirements of this Section 12 must be prepared and sealed <br /> by a California licensed civil, structural, or geotechnical engineer, as applicable. <br /> (b) Towers and Freestanding Wireless Facilities. In addition to all other design <br /> requirements in this policy, the following provisions shall be applied to an <br /> application for a tower or other freestanding wireless facility: <br /> (1) Quantity. No more than one tower or other freestanding wireless facility shall <br /> be permitted on any one parcel unless the proposed tower or other freestanding <br /> wireless facility is stealth with concealment elements pursuant to this Section <br /> 12. <br /> (2) Placement. Towers or other freestanding wireless facilities shall be located <br /> near existing structures or trees at similar heights for screening purposes <br /> wherever feasible, but not be located between the face of a building and a <br /> public right-of-way or park. <br /> (3) Height Limitation. All towers and freestyle wireless facilities shall be designed <br /> at the lowest possible height necessary to achieve the applicant's service <br /> objectives with the slimmest profile possible for structural support. All towers <br /> and other freestanding wireless facilities shall not exceed the heigh limit for <br /> structures in the applicable zoning district. The height of a tower or freestanding <br /> wireless facility shall be measured from the natural undisturbed ground surface <br /> below the center of the base of the tower or freestanding wireless facility itself <br /> to the top of the pole or other support structure, highest antenna, piece of <br /> accessory equipment or stealth element, whichever is highest. <br /> (4) Fall Zone. All towers and freestanding wireless facilities must be setback from <br /> habitable structures approved for residential occupancy by a distance equal to <br /> one horizontal foot for every foot of the tower height, or the distance from the <br /> highest engineered break point to the top of the tower. The approval authority <br /> may waive the setback requirement for freestanding towers that meet Class 3 <br /> structural standards for critical infrastructure as defined in the most current <br /> revision of the ANSI/TIA-222 Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting <br /> Structures, Antennas and Small Wind Turbine Support Structures. <br /> (5) Tower-Mounted Equipment. All tower-mounted equipment must be mounted <br /> as close to the vertical support structure as possible to reduce its overall visual <br /> profile. Applicants must mount non-antenna, tower-mounted equipment <br /> (including, but not limited to, remote radio units/heads, surge suppressors and <br /> utility demarcation boxes) directly behind the antennas to the maximum extent <br /> feasible. All tower-mounted equipment, cables and hardware must be painted <br /> with flat/neutral colors subject to the approval authority's prior approval. <br /> Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Policy(City of Pleasanton) page 20/37 <br />