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Report on the National Antenna Tower Policy Review

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Section A - Executive Summary
  • Background
  • Six Policy Questions
  • Data Collection
  • Principal Recommendations
• Section B - The National Antenna Tower Policy Review

  Introduction

  • The Townsend Report
  • Antenna 1997
  • The Dobell Report
  • National Antenna Tower Policy Review
    • Six questions for policy review
• Data Collection
  • Data from Electronic Sources
  • Written Submissions
  • Data from In-person and Telephone Interviews
• Section C - Overview of Antenna Siting
  • Adverse Environmental Effects
  • Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields
  • Consultation with Land-Use Authorities
    1. Consultations for Type 1 radio stations
    2. Consultations for Type 2 radio stations
    3. Consultations for Cellular/PCS service providers
    4. Consultations for Broadcasting Undertakings
  • Marking and Lighting of Towers for Aeronautical Purposes
• Section D - The Six Policy Question
• Question 1(a)
  1. Legislative Authority over Consultations
     Recommendation 1
  2. Role for Community Groups and Concerned Citizens
     Recommendation 2
  3. Policy Framework for Consultation Requirements
     Recommendation 3
  4. Classification of Radio Stations as Type 1 or Type 2
     Recommendation 4
  5. Policy Trigger for Mandatory Consultations
     Recommendation 5
  6. Consultation Issues and Accommodations
     Recommendation 6
  7. Criteria for Determining Local "Concurrence"
     Recommendation 7
  8. Policy Framework for Dispute Resolution
     Recommendation 8
  9. Consultation Document for Land-use Authorities and the Public
     Recommendation 9
  10. Industry Canada's Role in Local Consultations
      Recommendation 10
  11. Local Consultations and Antenna Site/Tower Sharing
      Recommendation 11
  12. Information about Compliance and Sanctions
      Recommendation 12
  13. Information on Obligations to Abate Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
      Recommendation 13
  14. Swamping and Immunity Determinations Involving Broadcasters
      Recommendation 14
  15. Preliminary Environmental Assessments
      Recommendation 15
  16. Towers and Bird Collisions
      Recommendation 16
• Question 1(b)
  1. Current Time Frames
  2. Opinions About the Appropriateness of Current Time Frames
  3. Recommendations about Appropriate Time Frames
     Recommendation 17
     Recommendation 18
     Recommendation 19
• Question 2
  1. Information Related to the Consultation
  2. Information Relevant to Potential Local Impact
  3. Other Information Requirements
     1. Necessity for particular antenna infrastructure
     2. Electromagnetic interference (EMI) questions
     3. Questions related to Safety Code 6 (RF exposure)
        Recommendation 20
        Recommendation 21
        Recommendation 22
        Recommendation 23
     4. Questions about aeronautical marking and lighting
        Recommendation 24
     5. Questions about impact upon property values
• Question 3
  1. An Overview of Safety Code 6
  2. Industry Canada and the Implementation of Safety Code 6
  3. Means Available to Radio Users to Ensure Compliance with Safety Code 6
  4. Means Available to Land-Use Authorities and Citizens
• Question 4
  1. Canada's History with Negotiated Protocols
  2. Implications of Local Protocols for the Planning and Siting of Antenna Structures, Visual (Impact) Guidelines and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
     1. Planning and siting of antenna structures
     2. Visual (impact) guidelines
     3. Dispute resolution mechanisms
        Recommendation 25
        Recommendation 26
        Recommendation 27
• Question 5
  1. Sharing of Supporting Structures
     Recommendation 28
  2. Site Sharing
     Recommendation 29
     Recommendation 30
     Recommendation 31
     Recommendation 32
  3. Sharing Networks
     Recommendation 33
• Question 6
  1. Opinions and Evidence Offered by Participants to Policy Review
  2. Discussion of the Opinions and Evidence
  3. Antenna Towers and Property Assessment Value
  4. Evidence of Antenna Towers' Impact upon House Sales Transactions
     Recommendation 34
• Section E - Conclusion
• Section F - Appendices
• Appendix A - User Opinions from the Online Discussion Forums
• Appendix B - Analysis of the Closed-ended Questions from the Data Obtained from the E-townhall Web site
• Appendix C - Analysis of the Open-ended Questions from the Data Obtained from the E-townhall Web site
• Appendix D - New Maryland Tower Site Investigation
• Appendix E - Municipal Antenna Protocols
• Appendix F - Comparative Regulatory Material: Antenna Siting in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America

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Submitted December 6, 2004

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