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Ordinance as Approved by BOCC <br />Search Area - An area or areas. defined on a map or maps showing the <br />maximum extent of locations suitable for the installation of an individual <br />telecommunications provider's facilities (tower or antenna co-locations). <br />Self-Support/Lattice Tower - A tapered structure broad at the base and <br />more narrow at the top consisting of cross-members and diagonal bracing <br />and without guyed support. <br />Stealth or Stealth Technology -Technology or practice intended to <br />minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, <br />buildings, and other equipment adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally <br />the same area as the requested location of such wireless <br />telecommunications towers and equipment, which shall mean using the <br />least visually and physically intrusive tower and/or equipment that is not <br />technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and <br />circumstances. <br />Stealth Facility -Any stealth telecommunication tower or equipment, <br />which is designed using stealth technology to blend into the surrounding <br />environment. Examples of stealth facilities include architecturally <br />screened roof-mounted antennas, antennas integrated into architectural <br />elements, and telecommunication and/or personal wireless services <br />towers designed to look like light poles, power poles or trees. <br />Telecommunication Equipment -Equipment, which is located either upon <br />a telecommunication tower or a structure and includes some form of <br />antenna for the purpose of transmitting and receiving wireless services. <br />Telecommunications Tower - A guyed, monopole or self-support/lattice <br />tower, constructed as afree-standing structure containing one (1) or more <br />antennas, used in the provision of wireless services excluding radar <br />towers, amateur radio support structures licensed by the FCC, private <br />home use of satellite dishes and television receiving antennas and <br />satellite earth stations installed in accordance with applicable codes. <br />Telecommunications Tower, Stealth - A telecommunication tower <br />designedusing stealth technology such that its primary purpose is, or <br />visually appears to be, something other than the support of <br />telecommunications equipment, the apparent purpose of the tower is <br />customarily considered as accessory to a use that is allowed in the <br />zoning district, and the structure and its. primary use comply with the <br />Orange County Zoning Ordinance. <br />Unforeseen Events -Condemnations of existing telecommunications <br />towers for road projects, casualty of existing telecommunications towers, <br />blocking of signals from new construction necessitating a relocation of a <br />telecommunication tower, or the need to replace an existing <br />telecommunication tower for capacity issues, or for other reasons <br />deemed necessary by the County Planning Director or his/her designee. <br />