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"Sec. 28-104. Wireless Communication Facilities Prohibited. "(b) Permitted areas. From and after the effective date of this ordinance new WCF's shall be permitted only in areas bearing a zoning designation of Agricultural (A), Commercial (C), Light Industrial (LI), Heavy Industrial (HI), or Planned Development District (Commercial), PD(c); the siting of WCF's in areas zoned other than as designated herein, including Residential Districts (SF-1), (SF-2), (SF-3), (217), (MF-1), (MF-2), other Planned Development Districts (PD), and other non- Agricultural, non-Commercial, and non-Industrial districts, including Parking Districts (P), Office Districts (O), Neighborhood Service Districts (NS), General Retail Districts (GR), and Public Lands and Institutions (PL&I), shall be and is hereafter prohibited. " Section 3. That Section 18-106(c) of Section 28 to Ordinance No. 1710, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Paris, said Section 28 entitled"Regulation of Wireless Telecommunication Towers and Facilities," shall be and is hereby amended to provide a variance procedure from certain setback standards, said Section 28-106(c) to read as follows: "Sec. 28-106. General requirements. "(c) Setback standards. "(1) All WCF's shall be set back from any adjoining lot line or adjacent street curb line a distance equal to the height of the WCF itself, including any support structure and antenna array. In determining the setback requirement, the distance shall be measured from the base of the support structure. "(2) The City Council may, upon appeal taken and following notice and public hearing as required herein, grant a variance from these setback standards. Before any such variance is granted, it shall be the applicant's burden to provide detailed evidence in support of said variance showing: "i. there is no other site for the proposed WCF reasonably available which could comply with these setback standards; "ii. the proposed WCF site is necessary to meet technical standards regarding signal coverage and signal strength, and no other suitable site is technically available;