NS ORD-2002-033 Telecommunications Tower Ordinance Amendments

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ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE . 25 major roads; State and local parks; other public lands; historic districts; preserves and historic sites normally open to the public; and from any other location where the site is visible to a large number of visitors, travelers or residents. Guidance will be provided, concerning the appropriate key viewpoints at a pre - application meeting. An assessment of the visual impact of the tower base, guy wires and accessory buildings from abutting and adjacent properties and streets as relates to the need or appropriateness of screening. All Applications shall contain a demonstration that the tower be sited so as to have the least visually intrusive effect reasonably possible and thereby have the least adverse visual effect on the environment and its character, on existing vegetation, and on the residences in the area of the telecommunications tower. Both the telecommunications tower and any and all accessory or associated telecommunication equipment and related facilities shall maximize the use of building materials, colors and textures designed to blend with the structure to which it may be affixed and /or to harmonize with the natural surroundings, this shall include the utilization of stealth technology as may required by the County. At a telecommunications tower site, an access road, turn around space and 'parking shall be provided to assure adequate emergency and service access. Maximum use of existing roads, whether public or private, shall be made to the extent practicable. Road construction shall at all times minimize ground disturbance and the cutting of vegetation. Road grades shall closely follow natural contours to assure minimal visual disturbance and reduce soil erosion. 8.8.17a.2 Standards of Evaluation The following specific standards, as well as those found in Section 6.18.4 of the Zoning Ordinance, shall be used in deciding upon an application for approval: a) Within or aAdjacent to residential zoning districts, minimum setbacks from the base of the tower to the property boundary shall be equal to" height 110% of the tower height. If the tower is proposed as an accessory use to a residential use, the tower setback Wge" shall be 110% of the tower height from any residence or dwelling unit on the subject property. The setbeek may be Fedused te no less then one half of the ♦.,WeF height if easements feF the Femaining tba k b) Adjacent to non - residential uses or non - residential zoning districts, minimum setbacks from the base of the tower to the property boundary shall be the greater of 20% of the tower height, or the minimum required setback.