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~~ Proposal: In accordance with Section Article Six (6) 6.18.5 Master Telecommunication Plan of the Ordinance, the County has the ability to adopt a Plan denoting the potential location for location of wireless support structures. This Plan essentially serves as a marketing tool to allow the County to provide some direction on where available properties, suitable for the development of wireless support structures, are located. Available properties include those where existing property owners have expressed formal, written, interest to the County in allowing for the development of a tower. Additions or modifications to the Plan are reviewed annually, as warranted, by the BOCC at the February Quarterly Public Hearing. Applications to add to, withdraw from or otherwise modify, the Plan are required to be filed with the Zoning Officer (Planning Director within the UDO) prior to December 15t" of each year. The adoption of the Plan does not create an automatic exemption for the various properties contained on the Plan from the review and approval process as prescribed by the Ordinance with respect to the development of wireless support structures. Please refer to Attachment 1 of this abstract for the proposed Plan, which denotes the following properties as suitable location(s) for wireless support structure(s) development. 1. The Occoneechee Mountain fire tower (E-2), 2. The Cedar Grove Fire Department (P-1), 3. The Cedar Grove County Park (P-2), 4. The Caldwell Fire Department (P-3), 5. The future County Northeast Park (P-4), 6. The Walnut Grove County Solid Waste facility (P-5), 7. The Eno Fire Department (P-6), 8. The County Soccer Fields (P-8), 9. A OWASA site (P-11), 10. The White Cross Fire Department (P-13), and 11. The Mellott property. Ordinance Reauirements -Types of Wireless Support Structures and Approval Processes: A wireless support structure (hereafter `tower') is defined within Article Twenty-two (22) Definitions of the Ordinance as: A new or existing structure, such as a monopole, lattice, or guyed tower that is designed to support or capable or supporting wireless facilities. A utility pole is not a wireless support structure. In reviewing Article Four (4) Section 4.3 Table of Permitted Uses of the Ordinance, the following towers are permitted for development with Orange County: • Use Category P17D -Telecommunication Towers -Stealth (75 feet of shorter) -Permitted by right subject to the review of a site plan submitted in accordance with Article Fourteen (14) Site Plan Approvals and Article Six (6) Section 6.18 Telecommunication Towers and Equipment of the Ordinance.