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41 <br />Self-Support/Lattice Wireless support structure - A tapered structure broad at the <br />base and narrower at the top consisting of cross-members and diagonal bracing <br />and without guyed support. <br />State -The State of North Carolina. <br />Stealth or Stealth Technology - A design or treatment that minimizes adverse <br />aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other facilities <br />adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area as the requested <br />location of such wireless support structures, which shall mean building the least <br />visually and~hysically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially <br />impracticable under the facts and circumstances. Stealth technology includes <br />such technology as Distributed Antenna System (DAS) or its functional equivalent <br />or camouflage where the structure is disguised to make it less visually obtrusive <br />and not recognized to the average person as a wireless support structure. <br />Telecommunication Equipment -Equipment, which is located either upon a <br />telecommunication tower or a structure and includes some form of antenna for the <br />purpose of transmitting and receiving wireless services. <br />Wireless facility Stealth - A wireless support structure designed;`:°>using stealth <br />technology such that its primary purpose is, or visually appears to be, something <br />other than the support of telecommunications equipment, the apparent purpose of <br />the wireless support structure is customarily considered as accessory to a use that <br />is allowed in the zoning district, and the structure and its primary use comply with <br />the Orange County Zoning Ordinance. <br />Utility pole - A structure that is designed for and used to carry lines, cables, or <br />wires for telephone, cable television, or electricity, or to provide lighting, <br />Unforeseen Events -Condemnations of existing telecommunications wireless <br />support structures for road projects, casualty of existing telecommunications <br />wireless support structures, blocking of signals from new construction <br />necessitatinq_a relocation of a telecommunication wireless support structure, or <br />the need to replace an existing telecommunication wireless support structure for <br />capacity issues, or for other reasons deemed necessary by the County Planning <br />Director orhis/her designee. <br />Whip Antenna - A cylindrical antenna that transmits and/or receives signals in <br />three hundred sixty (360°) de rq ees. <br />Wireless facility -The set of equipment and network components, exclusive of the <br />underlying support structure or tower, including antennas, transmitters, receivers <br />base stations, power supplies, cabling, and associated equipment necessary to <br />provide wireless. data and telecommunications services to a discrete geographic <br />area. This may also be referred to as a Personal Wireless Facility. <br />Wireless support structure -Anew or existing structure, such as a monopole, <br />lattice, or guyed tower that is designed to support or capable or supporting <br />wireless facilities. A utility pole is not a wireless support structure. <br />