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18 <br />I) An Applicant may be required to submit an Environmental Assessment <br />Analysis and a Visual addendum. Based on the results of the Analysis, <br />including the Visual addendum, the County may require submission of a <br />more detailed visual analysis. The scope of the required Environmental <br />and Visual Assessment will be reviewed at the pre-application meeting. <br />The Applicant shall furnish a Visual Impact Assessment, which shall <br />include: <br />A" Zone of Visibility Map" which shall be provided in order to determine <br />locations from which the tower may be seen. <br />Pictorial representations of "before and after" views from key viewpoints <br />both inside and outside of the County as may be appropriate, including <br />but not limited to State highways and other major roads; State and local <br />parks; other public lands; historic districts; preserves and historic sites <br />normally open to the public; and from any other location where the site is <br />visible to a large number of visitors, travelers or residents. Guidance will <br />be provided, concerning the appropriate key viewpoints at a pre- <br />application meeting. <br />An assessment of the visual impact of the tower base, guy wires and <br />accessory buildings from abutting and adjacent properties and streets as <br />relates to the need or appropriateness of screening. <br />All Applications shall contain a demonstration that the tower be sited so <br />as to have the least visually intrusive effect reasonably possible and <br />thereby have the least adverse visual effect on the environment and its <br />character, on existing vegetation, and on the residences in the area of <br />the telecommunications tower. <br />Both the telecommunications tower and any and all accessory or <br />associated telecommunication equipment and related facilities shall <br />maximize the use of building materials, colors and textures designed to <br />blend with the structure to which it may be affixed and/or to harmonize <br />with the natural surroundings, this shall include the utilization of stealth <br />technology as may required by the County. <br />At a telecommunications tower site, an access road, turn around space <br />and parking shall be provided to assure adequate emergency and <br />service access. Maximum use of existing roads, whether public or <br />private, shall be made to the extent practicable. Road construction shall <br />at all times minimize ground disturbance and the cutting of vegetation. <br />Road grades shall closely follow natural contours to assure minimal <br />visual disturbance and reduce soil erosion. <br />