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Article 5: Uses <br />Section 5.10: Standards for Telecommunication Facilities <br />section or portion must be barricaded with a suitable barrier to <br />discourage approaching into the area in excess of the FCC's regulations, <br />and be marked off with yellow and black striped warning tape or a <br />suitable warning barrier, as well as placing RF radiation signs as needed <br />and appropriate to warn individuals of the potential danger; <br />(f) A signed statement that the applicant will expeditiously remedy any <br />physical or RF interference with other telecommunications or wireless <br />devices or services caused by the new installation. <br />(3) Standards of Evaluation — Go 10Gatiens.Collocations and Towers Requiring <br />Administrative Approval <br />(a) A proposed tower shall not be permitted if it is not substantially <br />necessary for the telecommunications service need identified pursuant to <br />the standards of this Ordinance. <br />(b) Tower height shall be measured from the base of the tower to the <br />highest point of the proposed antenna(s), with lightening rod, to be <br />located atop the tower structure. <br />(c) Telecommunications towers shall conform with all of the requirements of <br />this Ordinance. <br />(d) All towers shall be engineered to allow for ee- lesatienscollocations. No <br />co- locator shall be refused access for ce- 4ecatiencollocation by charging <br />exorbitant lease fees. Public safety provider ce- leeatienscollocations <br />shall take priority over other co- locators. <br />(e) A telecommunications consultant shall provide Planning Staff assistance <br />on exorbitant rate leases. <br />(f) All wireless support structures shall satisfy all applicable public safety, <br />land use, or zoning issues required in this Ordinance, including <br />aesthetics, landscaping, land -use based location priorities, structural <br />design, setbacks, and fall zones. <br />(g) Applicants shall evaluate the reasonable feasibility of collocating new <br />antennas and equipment on an existing structure or structures within the <br />applicant's search ring. <br />(h) Prior to issuing a building permit for the collocation of an antenna array <br />on an existing facility, an applicant shall demonstrate that the collocation <br />is located appropriately on the facility with the overall goal being to <br />preserve the carrying capacity of the facility for future collocations and to <br />minimize the visual intrusiveness and impact, including the profile of the <br />facility. <br />(i) In determining the necessary height for a facility, or the height of a <br />collocation on a facility, the signal strengths analyzed shall be the <br />threshold or lowest signal strength at which the customer equipment is <br />designed to function, which may be required to be determined by the <br />manufacturer's published specifications for the customer equipment. <br />(j) Approval of the Planning Director to verify consistency with the definition <br />of stealth facility is required. <br />(k) All telecommunications towers shall be placed in heavily wooded areas <br />on the site to the maximum extent possible so as to lessen the visual <br />intrusiveness of the structure and accessory structures. <br />(1) No tower shall be permitted to exceed its designed loading capacity. For <br />all wireless support structures attached to existing structures, the <br />engineer certification statement shall include certification that the <br />structure can support the load superimposed from the wireless support <br />Orange County, North Carolina — Unified Development Ordinance Page 5 -88 <br />