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• Requiring proof of a significant gap in service coverage for any antenna, proven by ‘in-kind’ testing (such as drive-by tests and dropped calls) • Clarifying that an applicant’s claim that it needs the proposed tower for “future capacity” or to “improve coverage” is not sufficient to establish that it suffers from a significant gap in coverage • Requiring the least intrusive methods to fill any coverage gap for antennas • Requiring that a visual impact analysis be submitted for any new proposed antennas • Requiring General Liability Insurance as well as Pollution Liability Insurance • Allowing for random, unannounced radiation testing for all towers done by the City at the expense of the applicant • Including fall-zone requirements that wireless facilities are maintained at a sufficient distance from other structures and the general public • Allowing for revocability (a clause allowing the voiding of any contract requiring its modification in the event of a regulatory change) • Mandating certified mail notices of any proposed tower be sent to people living near a proposed site before approval, paid for by the applicant. • Establishing a procedure for any disabled persons suffering from EHS to submit requests/grievances in accordance with the ADA • Establishing that the codes apply to all wireless transmitting antennas, including any on private homes (aimed at the OTARD challenge) • Deputizing any citizen to test for RF emissions • Protecting against reductions in property values of properties situated near wireless facilities • Requiring that everything submitted by the applicant is done so under oath and penalty of perjury City of Langley Washington- https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/Langley/#!/Langley18/Langley1823.html%2318.23 In the small town in Langley, in Washington state, passed a strong but legal wireless facilities ordinance to give as much power as possible back to the city within the legal bounds of the 1996 Telecommunications Act (TCA). The Personal Wireless Facilities policy for the City of Langly acknowledges an even greater potential concern to the city is the fact that the FCC does not enforce the RF radiation limits codified within the CFR by either: (1) testing the actual radiation emissions of wireless facilities either at the time of their installation or at any time thereafter, or (2) requiring their owners to test them. They have provisions for a consultant to measure the RFR and many other important provisions. City of Malibu https://malibucity.org/DocumentCenter/View/28468/PLN-WP_WRP-Submittal- Checklist?bidId= Malibu used a skilled attorney to craft their ordinance. Due to concerns over fires developing in cell tower electrical units, which has happened in many cities, they included a provision that all telecommunications installations should be required to comply with specifications of the APCO