John C. Aegerter and Air Page Corp. v. City of Delafield, Wisconsin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the TCA does not prohibit local authorities \from applying general and nondiscriminatory standards derived from their zoning codes\
• stating that Telecommunications Act does not allow courts to “second guess” political decisions of local governments regarding placement of cell sites
• noting that, in writing the TCA, Congress left “most of the substantive authority to approve the location of personal wireless service facilities in the hands of state or local governments”
• referring in dicta to writing requirement as “the requirement for written findings, supported by substantial evidence in the written record”
• upholding zoning board’s denial of cell-phone tower because the tower would be “unsightly” and “inconsistent” with the neighborhood, in which residents bought their homes in reliance on the neighborhood’s existing residential character
• “Nothing in the Telecommunications Act forbids local authorities from applying general and nondiscriminatory standards derived from their zoning codes, and we note that aesth etic harmony is a prominent goal underlying almost every such code”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).