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§ 33-703. Personal wireless service facilities guidelines—Five general principles.

Escondido Zoning Code · 2026-05 edition · updated 2026-07-25 · Escondido

The following principles shall serve as general guidelines for the city's consideration of applications for personal wireless service facilities which are not small wireless facilities located in the public right-of-way:

  • (a) Height guidelines—Utilize lowest profile technology.

    • (1) Discourage further consideration of high-profile antenna installations (such as noncamouflaged towers and monopoles). Personal wireless service facilities should be designed to be in scale with surrounding buildings and tree heights.

    • (2) Use existing structures as opposed to introducing new ones.

    • (3) Encourage facilities that meet the zone's height standards.

    • (4) Use landscaping (such as dense tree growth) or other measures to minimize visual impacts and screen the facility.

  • (b) Location guidelines—Avoid proliferations that create or compound undesirable visual impacts, but also encourage co-location, where appropriate.

    • (1) Encourage the use of commercial, and industrial, and public right-of-way sites whenever possible, and discourage the use of residential zones. Wireless communication facilities proposed to be located within residential zones/areas shall consider the following and submit a feasibility study to implement the following options before proposing a wireless facility on a residentially developed property:

      • (A) Residential zoned properties developed with nonresidential uses (i.e., schools, churches, parks, etc.);

      • (B) Public right-of-way (such as existing or new light pole or other utility structures).

    • (2) Encourage single sites utilizing stealth designs and latest technologies.

    • (3) Ensure full aesthetic integration of new facilities into the proposed locations.

    • (4) Ensure that the area covered by wireless facilities which are screened and landscaped to minimize visual impacts is large enough to incorporate appropriate visual screening methods.

    • (5) Ensure that proposed landscaping has permanent proper irrigation and maintenance.

    • (6) Require amended co-location language for facility leases on city-owned properties to

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      1. § 33-1313. Penalty provisions.
      2. Article 1 — GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
      3. Article 2 — OPEN SPACE AND HAZARDOUS LANDS GENERALLY
      4. Article 3 — OPEN SPACE (OS) ZONE
      5. Article 4 — FLOOD PLAIN (FP) OVERLAY ZONE
      6. Article 5 — OPEN SPACE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
      7. Article 6 — RESIDENTIAL ZONES
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      20. Article 32 — BED AND BREAKFAST FACILITIES
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      22. ▸ Article 34 — COMMUNICATION ANTENNAS
        Overview
        1. § 33-700. Purpose.
        2. § 33-701. Objectives.
        3. § 33-702. Definitions.
        4. § 33-703. Personal wireless service facilities guidelines—Five…
        5. § 33-703 include:
        6. § 33-704. Personal wireless service facilities—Development and…
        7. § 33-705 excludes the public right-of-way adjacent to such land.
        8. § 33-705. Personal wireless service facilities—Application req…
        9. § 33-706. Personal wireless service facilities—Land use approv…
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        11. § 33-707. Personal wireless service facilities—Modifications a…
        12. § 33-708. Personal wireless service facilities—Abandonment or …
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