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c. A Landscape Plan showing, at the _Yes N <br />The replacement tower is proposed <br />same scale as the Site Plan, existing X N/A o <br />to be constructed in a heavily <br />and proposed trees, plus shrubs, <br />wooded, mature hardwood forested <br />ground cover and other landscape <br />area just east of the existing tower <br />materials. This plan shall minimize <br />on the PEMC headquarters campus. <br />adverse visual effects of <br />No additional landscaping is <br />telecommunications towers and <br />required. <br />antennas through careful design, <br />(Page 50) <br />siting, landscape screening and <br />innovative camouflaging techniques. <br />Notwithstanding any other provision of <br />this article, to minimize adverse visual <br />impacts associated with the <br />proliferation and clustering of <br />telecommunications towers, co- <br />location of telecommunications <br />equipment on existing or new towers <br />shall be encouraged. <br />d) Monopole, lattice or guyed _X Yes N <br />A 157' monopole tower is located <br />telecommunications towers shall not o <br />0.66 miles north of the site on Old <br />be located within '/ mile of any <br />NC Highway 10. Another 160' <br />existing monopole, lattice or guyed <br />guyed tower is located 0.66 miles to <br />telecommunications tower. An <br />the south along NC Highway 86 <br />exception may be allowed when the <br />South. <br />applicant can sufficiently demonstrate <br />that 1) appropriate space on the <br />Neither of the towers is adequate for <br />existing telecommunication tower is <br />Piedmont's purpose. It is not <br />not available; or 2) the applicant has <br />technologically or commercially <br />made good faith effort to negotiate an <br />practicable to use the existing <br />agreement with the owner of the <br />towers or use multiple smaller <br />existing telecommunication tower and <br />towers. <br />has been unsuccessful, which must be <br />documented in writing; or 3) the <br />(Page 50) <br />telecommunication equipment on the <br />existing telecommunication tower is <br />not compatible with the proposed <br />telecommunication equipment of the <br />applicant; or 4) adequate coverage by <br />the applicant cannot be met at the <br />location of the existing <br />telecommunication tower, or 5) the <br />existing telecommunication tower <br />cannot be reasonably modified to <br />accommodate additional co- location <br />by the applicant. Exceptions shall only <br />be allowed after the County s <br />consultant or Staff indicating that <br />coverage is not possible on an existing <br />tower at the four - carrier capacity or <br />other user capacity that can be <br />achieved performs a thorough analysis <br />of the search area provided by the <br />applicant. There must be an 80% <br />approval vote of the deciding board for <br />this specific finding to pass the <br />exception criteria. <br />e. Evidence that the applicant has <br />investigated the possibilities for <br />locating the proposed facilities on an <br />existing tower., Such evidence shall <br />consist of: <br />25 <br />9V <br />