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No telecommunications facility shall be designed and/or sited such that it poses a potential hazard to nearby residences or surrounding properties or improvements. To this end, any telecommunication tower, except exempt facilities as defined in Section 14.44.020(S)(1), located at a distance of less than one hundred ten percent of its height from a habitable structure, property line, or other tower shall be designed and maintained to withstand without failure the maximum forces expected from wind and earthquakes when the tower is fully loaded with antennas, transmitters and other equipment, and camouflaging. Initial demonstration of compliance with this requirement shall be provided via submission of a report to the building official prepared by a structural engineer licensed by the state of California describing the tower structure, specifying the number and type of antennas it is designed to accommodate, providing the basis for the calculations done, and documenting the actual calculations performed. Proof of ongoing compliance shall be provided via submission to the planning director at least every five (self-supporting and guyed towers) ten (monopoles) years of an inspection report prepared by a California-licensed structural engineer indicating the number and types of antennas and related equipment actually present and indicating the structural integrity of the tower. Based on this report, the building official may require repair or, if a serious safety problem exists, removal of the tower. (Ord. 2029 NCS (part), 1996.)