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ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE 10 <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- shalt mearr 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 faeility <br />which is designed using. stealth technoiog� 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 towers <br />designed to look like light poles, power poles or trees. <br />Telecommunication Equipment i =asili - Egpl <br />equipment which is located either upon a telecommunication tower or a <br />structure andwhish includes some form'of antenna for the purpose of <br />transmitting and receiving wireless services. <br />Telecommunications Tower - A guyed, monopole or self- support/iattice <br />tower, constructed as a free - 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 satellite <br />earth stations installed in accordance with applicable codes. <br />Telecommunications Tower, Stealth - A telecommunication tower designed <br />using stgalth- technology suchAhatIN whose 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 zoning <br />district, and the structure and its primary use comply with the Orange <br />County Zoning Ordinance. <br />Unforeseen Events - Condemnations of existing telecommunications <br />towers for road projects casually 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 otherreaw* ns deemed <br />� .County Planning. Director or hkv?w designee; <br />Whip Antenna - A cylindrical antenna that transmits and /or receives <br />signals in three hundred sixty (360) degrees. <br />