Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
I., <br />ORDINANCE TO PLANNING BOARD (DRAFT) so <br />c) A Landscape Plan showing, at the same scale as the Site Plan, existing <br />and proposed trees, plus shrubs, ground cover and other landscape <br />materials. This plan shall minimize adverse visual effects of <br />telecommunication towers and antennas through careful design, <br />siting, landscape screening and innovative camouflaging <br />techniques. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, to <br />minimize adverse visual impacts associated with the proliferation <br />and clustering of telecommunications towers, co- location of <br />facilities on existing or new towers shall be encouraged. <br />d) Monopole, lattice or guyed telecommunication towers shall not be <br />located within'/ mile of any existing monopole, lattice or guyed <br />telecommunications tower. This distance restriction shall not apply <br />to any monopole, lattice or guyed telecommunication tower owned <br />by a public, not for profit agency or entity nor to facilities co- <br />located on existing buildinas/structures. <br />do) Evidence that the applicant has investigated the possibilities for locating.. <br />the proposed facilities on an existing tower. Such evidence shalt consist- <br />of. <br />1) A'isting of all towers within a Ys 1 -mile (for towers 150 feet in <br />height or shortgr -than 200 (oaf) or 4- 2 -miles (for towers greater <br />than = 150 feet OF falleF in height) radius of the proposed <br />tower site. Documents shall be submitted at the time of <br />application filing that indicate the applicant's ability or <br />Inability to co- locate on the identified towers). and reasons <br />why. <br />2) Delineation of the boundaries of the maximum search range <br />within which the tower equipment can function as intended. The <br />following Information shall be provided for all existing towers• <br />within the search range: <br />(a) Tower height, as measured from the greuadto the <br />base of the tower <br />to the highest point of the proposed antenna(s) to be <br />located atop the tower structure; <br />(b) Existing and planned tower users; <br />(c) Whether the existing tower could accommodate the <br />antenna to be attached to the proposed tower without <br />causing structural instabiiity•or radio frequency <br />interference; and <br />(d) If the proposed antenna cannot be accommodated on <br />the existing tower, assess whether the existing tower <br />could be structurally strengthened or whether the <br />antennas transmitters and related equipment could be <br />protected from electromagnetic interference, and <br />generally describe the means and projected cost of <br />shared use of the existing tower, and <br />