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On April 21, 2026, and pursuant to Section 18.110.050 of the Municipal Code, the City Council adopted this policy to conform the City's permit process for eligible facilities requests to federal standards in Section 6409 and the FCC's regulations. Section 2. PURPOSE AND INTENT (a) The City intends this policy to establish reasonable, uniform and comprehensive standards and procedures for eligible facilities requests proposed within the City's territorial and jurisdictional boundaries, consistent with and to the extent permitted under federal and California state law. (b) The standards and procedures contained in this policy are intended to, and should be applied, consistent with federal and state law, to protect and promote public health, safety and welfare, and balance the benefits that flow from robust, advanced wireless services with the City's local values, which include without limitation the aesthetic character of the City, its neighborhoods and community. (c) This policy is also intended to reflect and promote the community interest by: (1) ensuring that an appropriate balance between public and private interests are maintained; (2) protecting the City's visual character and property values from potential adverse impacts or visual blight created or exacerbated by wireless facilities and related communications infrastructure; (3) protecting and preserving the City's environmental resources; (4) protecting the City's residential neighborhoods and other family-oriented environments; and (5) ensuring appropriate placement of high-quality, advanced wireless services for the City's residents, businesses and visitors. (d) This policy is not intended to, nor shall it be interpreted or applied to: (1) prohibit or effectively prohibit any personal wireless service provider's ability to provide personal wireless services; (2) prohibit or effectively prohibit any entity's ability to provide any telecommunications service, subject to any competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory rules, regulations or other legal requirements for rights-of-way management; (3) unreasonably discriminate among providers of functionally equivalent personal wireless services; (4) deny any request for authorization to place, construct or modify personal wireless service facilities on the basis of environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such wireless facilities comply with the FCC's regulations concerning such emissions; (5) prohibit any collocation or modification that the City may not deny under federal or California state law; or (6) otherwise authorize the City to violate any applicable federal or California state law. Section 3. DEFINITIONS The abbreviation, phrases, terms and words used in this policy will have the following meanings assigned to them unless context indicates otherwise. Undefined phrases, terms Eligible Facilities Requests Policy (City of Pleasanton) page 3/26