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]ss2/25/11 33-254 Future Changes in the Law Sec. 33-230. Purpose and Intent. The City Council finds and determines that it is in the interest of the City of Santa Ana to establish a process that balances the need for Santa Ana residents to access wireless communications, the general welfare of Santa Ana residents, and the requirements of state and federal law, to guide applicants for telecommunication facilities within or along the public right of way. Accordingly, this article is adopted: (1) To provide uniform standards for the community desired design, placement, permitting and monitoring of telecommunication facilities consistent with applicable state and federal requirements. (2) To manage the public right of way as to the time, place, and manner in which it is accessed. (a) To minimize the environmental and aesthetic impacts of installations in crowded public rights of way. (b) To strongly encourage telecommunications facilities to be installed only as ancillary uses at new and existing sites. feasible. (c) To require installation on arterial rather than local streets when (3) To preserve view corridors, to discourage visual blight and clutter and to encourage aesthetic placement of telecommunication facilities. (4) To accommodate public and City use of the public right of way, so as to permit maintenance of telecommunication facilities, and to minimize disruption to vehicular traffic and pedestrian flow; and on-street parking. (5) To minimize unnecessary disruption of the public right of way by coordinating installations so as to effectively manage use of the public right of way. (6) To ensure the structural integrity, reliability, performance, safety, quality, ease of maintenance, and aesthetic integrity of the public right of way. (7) To ensure that similarly situated public right of way users are treated in a competitively neutral and non-discriminatory manner while complying with applicable state and federal requirements. (8) To ensure compliance with all federal, state, county, and local laws. Ordinance NS-2816 Page 3 of 16