RES-2006-109 Resolution to approve ord special use permit Piedmont Electric Corp offices & tower 150 ft

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~ 121 lzl 06 - 8 a. ~~s • ~a~~ - ~~ ~ RESOLUTION ' OF THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO APPROVE AN ORDINANCE FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT, CLASS A FOR PLANNED DEVELOPMENT-OFFICE/INSTITUTIONAL OF PIEDMONT ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION FOR OFFICES AND A TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER GREATER THAN 150' IN HEIGHT Date: December 12, 2006 Applicant/Owner: Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation The Orange County Board of County Commissioners hereby adopts the Recommended County Commissioner Findings concerning compliance with specific and general standards for this special use as detailed herein. The Orange County Board of County Commissioners' findings herein relate to the application submitted by Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation for a revision to its Planned Development and Special Use Permit, Class A for a 350 foot telecommunications tower and the as-built site plan dated July 7, 1987, applicable to the following property and subject to the following conditions: Property located at 2500 NC Highway 86 South being further identified in the Orange County Land Records Office by Parcel Identification Numbers, 9873-65-7456 and containing 34.737 acres more or less. The property is identified by the following legal description: BEGINNING at an iron in the line of Archie E. Millis, the Northwest corner of Willie D. Jones, running thence along with the line of Millis North 4 deg. 36 min. East 368.35 feet to an iron, the Southeast corner of Kendrick Estates Investment Corporation; thence along the north line of said Millis property North 87 deg. 49 min. 27 sec. West 237.73 feet; thence from the centerline of NC Highway 86 South, North 27 deg. 52 min. 45 sec. East 499.1 feet'; thence North 33 deg. 09 min. 30 sec. East 293.04 feet to a nail; thence South 86 deg. 02 min. East approximately 578.09 feet to a concrete monument, corner with Joppa Oaks Estates; thence with Joppa Oaks South 85 deg. 50 min East 707.33 feet to a concrete monument; thence continuing with Joppa Oaks South 3 deg. 39 min. West 683.35 feet to concrete monument, corner with Duke University Forest; thence with Duke South 5 deg. 09 min. West 433.60 feet to a buggy axle, corner with Willie D. Jones; thence with Jones North 84 deg. 07 min. West 1347.72 feet to the place and point of beginning, containing 34.737 acres. The following are conditions of approval: Any lighting on the replacement tower shall be shielded so as not to be seen from the ground for a distance of one mile at the height of twelve degrees (12°) vertical. 2. The navigational lighting shall be white, rather than red, and the strobe period shall be the longest permitted under FCC regulations.