Columbia General standards ordinance (§ 24-202)

(a) The city shall not enter into an exclusive arrangement with any company for use or management of the right-of-way for the collocation of small wireless facilities or the installation, operation, marketing, modification, maintenance, management, or replacement of city utility poles within the right-of-way, or for the right to attach to such city utility poles within the right-of-way.

(b) The city, in applying the provisions of this section, will act in a competitively neutral manner with regard to other users of the right-of-way.

(c) Nothing in this article limits the ability of the city to require an applicant to obtain one or more permits of general applicability that do not apply exclusively to wireless facilities in addition to the permit required by this code in order to collocate a small wireless facility or install a new, modified, or replacement utility pole associated with a small wireless facility.

(d) The city may require a permit under applicable codes, existing city ordinances, or this article, with reasonable conditions, for work in a right-of-way that will involve excavation, affect traffic patterns, obstruct traffic in the right-of-way, or materially impede the use of a sidewalk.

(e) A small wireless facility must comply with reasonable, objective, and cost-effective concealment or safety requirements determined by the city as well as city aesthetic standards, including using equipment as close in color to the pole as possible.

(f) Subject to section 24-203(h), and except for facilities excluded from evaluation for effects on historic properties under 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307(a)(4) of the Federal Communications Commission rules, the city may require reasonable, technically feasible, nondiscriminatory, and technologically neutral design or concealment measures for small wireless facilities or utility poles placed in a historic district or areas specifically designated as an HP-O District on the "Official Zoning Map of the City of Columbia, Missouri." Any such design or concealment measures shall not have the effect of prohibiting any wireless provider's technology, nor shall any such measures be considered a part of the small wireless facility for purposes of the size restrictions in the definition of small wireless facility.

(g) Right-of-way users, upon adequate notice and at the facility owner's own expense, shall relocate facilities as may be needed in the interest of public safety and convenience.

(h) Except as otherwise provided in this code and applicable law, in reviewing applications for small wireless facilities, wireless support structures and utility poles, the city will exercise zoning, land use, planning, and permitting authority within its territorial boundaries.

(i) Nothing in this article shall be interpreted to impose any new requirements on cable providers for the provision of such service.

(j) Small wireless facilities or utility poles constructed or operational before August 28, 2018, which were approved by the city by permit or agreement may remain installed and be operated under the requirements of this article.

(k) Although municipal electric utility distribution poles or facilities are expressly excluded from RSMo. §§ 67.5110—67.5121, the city shall reserve the right and authority to contract for attachment to city-owned electric utility distribution poles and facilities.