ORD-2006-086 - Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation (PEMC) Planned Development (PD-OI) and Special Use Permit, Class A

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19 b) All telecommunications towers X Yes No This tower is being placed in a — es —No shall be placed in heavily wooded heavily wooded, mature hardwood areas on the site to the maximum forested area just east of the extent possible so as to lessen the existing tower at the PEMC visual intrusiveness of the structure Headquarters. It has been situated and accessory structures. The so as to utilize as much of the tree applicant stating how the ' proposed coverage as possible. As is tower will be minimally visually evidenced from the attached intrusive to surrounding properties in balloon test report, the new tower the area shall submit a statement. will practically be unseen from the Criteria that may be used for such north- looking south along- NC evidence may be height and type of Highway 86 and from the south existing trees surrounding the near the mini- storage looking north ro osed tower and local along NC Highway 86. V p 1 topography. c) A statement shall be submitted, X Yes No Drawings sealed by a registered Yes No . prepared by a professional engineer engineer in the State of North licensed in the State of North Carolina indicated that the tower Carolina, which through rational is constructed so as to support the engineering analysis, certifies the PEMC antennas and is equipped to tower's compliance with applicable support at least five (5) other standards as set forth in the State of antenna systems and there could North Carolina Building Code, and be room for many more than five. any associated regulations; and PEMC is willing to make the site describes the tower's capacity, available to other antenna systems including an example of the number for a fee. PEMC has offered the and type of antennas it can Orange County Sheriffs office accommodate. space on the tower at no- charge. d) Applicants shall provide: X Yes No The PEMC radio system is a Yes No 1) The existing cell sites (latitude, trunked, two -way VHR system longitude, power levels) to which and does not utilize cellular this proposed site will be.a handoff technology. candidate, 2) A Radio Frequency plot indicating X Yes No Attached propagation maps Yes No the coverage of existing sites, and indicate the two -way radio that of the proposed site, coverage for both outgoing and in coming messages. 3) The search area utilized in finding X Yes No A search area is not applicable for Yes No the proposed site, this tower since PEMC has determined that the tower will be more securely located on their existing property. 4) Antenna heights and power levels X Yes No The tower is a 350' self- Yes No of proposed site, and supporting model NSX Nelto tower. The antennas will be Andrew DB264 antennas with 6dBm of gain mounted at 350' AGL. The total effective radiated power of the site will be about 160 watts. 5) The frequency, modulation and X Yes No VFH frequencies assigned to this Yes No class of service of radio or other site are 153.530, 153.470, and transmitting equipment. 153.605 mHz. The modulation scheme for the proposed radio will be analog with an emission code of 11 K2F1 D. The class of service will be F132 per the FCC license. 6) The actual intended transmission X Yes No Tge antenna systems will be Yes _No and the maximum effective radiated installed in an omni - directional power of the antenna. fashion with an effective radiated power of about 160 watts. 7) The direction of maximum lobes X Yes No No directional antennas will be Yes No and associated radiation . of the used on this radio system. All antennas. antennas will be omni- directional. 19