S ORD-2002-037 Telecommunication Tower Ordinance Amendments

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15 c) A Landscape Plan showing, at the same scale as the Site Plan, existing and proposed trees, plus shrubs, ground cover and other landscape materials. This plan shall minimize adverse visual effects of telecommunications towers and antennas through careful design, siting, landscape screening and innovative camouflaging techniques. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, to minimize adverse visual impacts associated with the proliferation and clustering of telecommunications towers, co-location of telecommunications equipment on existing or new towers shall be encouraged. d) Monopole, lattice or guyed telecommunications towers shall not be located within'/2 mile of any existing monopole, lattice or guyed telecommunications tower. An exception may be allowed when the applicant can sufficiently demonstrate that 1) appropriate space on the existing telecommunication tower is not available; or 2) the applicant has made good faith effort to negotiate an agreement with the owner of the existing telecommunication tower and has been unsuccessful, which must be documented in writing; or 3) the telecommunication equipment on the existing telecommunication tower is not compatible with the proposed telecommunication equipment of the applicant; or 4) adequate coverage by the applicant cannot be met at the location of the existing telecommunication tower; or 5) the existing telecommunication tower cannot be reasonably modified to accommodate additional co-location by the applicant. Exceptions shall only be allowed after a thorough analysis of the search area provided by the applicant is performed by the County's consultant or Staff indicating that coverage is not possible on an existing tower at the four-carrier capacity or other user capacity that can be achieved. There must be a 80% approval vote of the deciding board for this specific finding to pass the exception criteria. e) Evidence that the applicant has investigated the possibilities for locating the proposed equipment on an existing tower. Such evidence shall consist of: 1) A listing of all telecommunications towers within a 1-mile (for towers 150 feet in height or shorter or 2-miles (for towers greater than 150 feet in height) radius of the proposed tower site. Documents shall be submitted at the time of application filing that indicate the applicant's ability or inability to co-locate on the identified tower(s) and reasons why. 2) Delineation of the boundaries of the maximum search range within which the telecommunication equipment can function as intended. The following information shall be provided for all existing towers within the search range: a) Telecommunication tower height, as measured from the base of the tower to the highest point of the proposed antenna(s), including lightning rods, to be located atop the tower structure; b) Existing and planned tower users;