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i <br />ORDINANCE TO PLANNING BOARD (DRAFT) 60 <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 buiidinas /structures. <br />d e) Evidence that the applicant has investigated the possibilities for locating <br />the proposed facilities on an existing tower. Such evidence shall consist <br />of: <br />1) A listing of all towers within a A 1 -mile (for towers 150 feet in <br />height or shortgr 4kian 280 -feet) or 4 2 -miles (for towers greater <br />than 290150 feet ef- tallef 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 tower(s) 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 greund#ethe <br />base of the tower <br />to the highest point of the proposed antennas) 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 Instability-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 />