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.r <br />1 MINUTES <br />2 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />3 ORDINANCE REVIEW AND REGULAR MEETING <br />4 SEPTEMBER 4, 2002 <br />5 6:30 p.m. <br />6 <br />7 MEMBERS PRESENT: Nicole Gooding -Ray, Chair, Jay Bryan (regular meeting only), <br />a Craufurd Goodwin, Barry Katz, Sam Lasris (regular meeting only), Howard McAdams (regular <br />9 meeting only), Rachel Preston (Ordinance Review only), Renee Price (regular meeting only - <br />10 arrived 8:30), Hunter Schofield, Maria Tadd (regular meeting only) <br />11 STAFF PRESENT: Planning Director Craig Benedict, Robert Davis, Tom King, Catherine <br />12 LaSpaluto and Thomas Tempia <br />13 <br />14 AGENDA ITEM #1: ORDINANCE REVIEW — Telecommunications Ordinance <br />15 Amendments <br />16 <br />17 Benedict made this presentation. There is a reference imbedded in the ordinance that talks about <br />18 a future plan where the County can put together potential sites of a public or quasi- public nature <br />19 (i.e., fire stations, parks, voluntary agricultural districts, etc.) for towers. There would be a <br />20 different process for the towers located on public properties. An important part of the new <br />21 regulations for towers is that there will be annual application submittal. This would be one <br />22 meeting a year where all of the industry participants would be invited to bring their ideas of what <br />23 projects they may need in the coming year. This could encourage co- location. Another change is <br />24 that there will be a twice a year application submittal for Class A towers. Also, within the new <br />25 code, we are promoting using the power towers to put antennae attachments to them. This will <br />26 limit the amount of new towers going up. The height thresholds for Class A.and Class B have <br />27 also been changed. If the provider comes in with four carriers on a 200 -foot pole or less, it will <br />28 stay Class B and only come to the Board of Adjustment for approval. <br />29 ' <br />30 Preston asked if the ordinance was currently weighted so that public sites must be used first. <br />31 Benedict said no. <br />32 <br />33 Price stated that there should be something that requires the public sites to be used first, if it is in <br />34 the same area as a proposed tower. <br />35 <br />36 Benedict spoke about the new fee structure for towers and said that it is $5,000 in escrow to <br />37 cover contracted service for technical review by the County. Any money left over would be <br />38 rebated. There will still be a base amount for a Class A or Class B special use permit. There <br />39 would still not be 100% cost recovery of staff time with the Special Use Permit fees. <br />40 <br />41 Schofield said that if you have full cost recovery for telecommunications, you would have to <br />42 have full cost recovery for everybody. <br />43 <br />44 Chair Gooding -Ray said that she thinks there is a way to differentiate and to single out <br />45 telecommunications. <br />46 <br />102 <br />