ORD-2008-013 - Telecommunication Wireless Facility Zoning Ordinance Amendments

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24 May and November Public Hearings. New applications for Class B Special Use Permits for telecommunications towers fireless support structures will be reviewed by the Board of Adjustment in accordance with the published Board of Adjustment meeting schedule. No application will be considered unless the proposed site was identified on either the site plan or the search area fm plan shown at the ATPM. 2) Formal applications for the May and November Public Hearings by the County Commissioners, and meetings of the Board of Adjustment, shall be submitted in accordance with the published yearly calendar of meetings schedule. 3) Exceptions to the ATPM requirement as it applies to a particular site may be allowed in the case of unforeseen events as defined in Section 6.18 provided the applicant shall submit documentation for review by the Orange County Development Review Advisory Committee (DRAC) that such a waiver is necessary. The DRAC shall make a determination on the waiver request and notify the applicant within a reasonable time period. 4) As of the effective date of this Ordinance amendment, any pending applications that halve not received .a zoning compliance permit or a special use permit shall meet all requirements of this Ordinance, including, but not limited to submission deadlines, application standards and processing, excluding the ATPM requirement. 8.8.17a Telecommunication Tower-sWireless support structures Overall Policy and Desired Goals for Special Use Permits for Telecommunications r,,,..e.• Wireless Support Structures. telecommunications wireless support structures shall be i?promotina and encouraging, wherever possible, alternatives to constructing new tsweFS.wireless support structures, including but not limited to the co- location of- wireless telecommunications equipment and mitigating the visual effect of a telecommunication tewer-wireless support structure to an extent not commercially impracticable; promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of wireless telecommunications towers and equipment in such a manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology or camouflage techniques, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, -and in generally the same area as the requested location of such telecommunications tewe• wireless support structure, which shall mean using the least visually and physically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and circumstances.