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SEP-OE -2002 02:17PY FROM- PENNINGTON AND LOTT +18039291075 <br />T -372 P -007 /008 F -403 <br />79 <br />e. Requiring that the communications tower be placed in a <br />wooded area to the extent that such exists and is <br />available for use. <br />f. Limiting lighting on the communications tower. <br />5. Fall Zone. Section 8.8.17a.1 a.a., Page 14 (Site Plan Requirements), <br />and Section 8.8.17a.2.a., Page 18. The fall zone requirements have <br />been increased by Ten (10) % percent. The first Issue is that there is <br />no definition for "fall zone" given in the Ordinance. I assume that this <br />means that distance within which the communications tower would <br />fall in the unlikely event it should fail, as certified by a professional <br />engineer licensed in the State of North Carolina. Some jurisdictions <br />define the fail zone as the height of the communications tower (a one <br />for .one ratio). Clarification is needed In this Ordinance. Also, the <br />increase in not necessary. Communications towers, and especially <br />monopoles which this Ordinance will dictate, do not fall over like pine <br />trees. In the unlikely event of a failure, the top of the communications <br />tower would buckle over at a designed point, and the top of the <br />communications tower would never even hit the ground. I can assure <br />you that the wind would not blow the tower along the ground as <br />suggested at the last meeting. <br />6. GROUND LIGHTING. Page 18. The Ordinance now requires that <br />lighting on the equipment building be shielded so as not to be visible <br />from adjacent properties. This is impossible. In a wide open area, a <br />Forty (40) watt light bulb may be visible from a mile a way regardless <br />of the type of shield used. This sentence. should be rewritten. The <br />standard should be that no light Is allowed to be projected onto <br />adjacent properties, not visible, for this is not possible. The light is for <br />security and safety reasons, both of which are more overriding <br />concerns than the potential visibility from adjacent properties. The <br />light can be isolated to light only the equipment building and the base <br />of the communications tower. No more, no less, but it will be visible <br />from outside the compound. <br />F1 � COUNTY ZO? INDICOWWU REGAROW TIM ORDINANCE TO AMONG TM ZONWO Oita Koj a OF OMNG¢ COUNTY <br />