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61 <br />determination on the waiver request and notify the applicant within a <br />reasonable time period. <br />4) As of the effective date of this Ordinance amendment, any pending <br />applications that have not received a zoning compliance permit or a <br />special use permit shall meet all requirements of this Ordinance, <br />including, but not limited to submission deadlines, application <br />standards and processing, excluding the ATPM requirement. <br />8.8.17a Telecommunication Wireless support structures <br />Overall Policy and Desired Goals for Special Use Permits for <br />Telecommunications Wireless Support Structures. <br />The overall policy and desired goals for Special Use Permits for <br />telecommunications wireless support structures shall be promoting and <br />encouraging, wherever possible, alternatives to constructing new wireless support <br />structures, including but not limited to the co-location of wireless <br />telecommunications equipment and mitigating the visual effect of a <br />telecommunication wireless support structure to an extent not commercially <br />impracticable; promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, <br />height and quantity of wireless telecommunications towers and equipment in such <br />a manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology or camouflage <br />techniques, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, <br />property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally <br />the same area as the requested location of such telecommunications wireless <br />support structure, which shall mean using the least visually and physically <br />intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the <br />facts and circumstances. <br />8.8.17a.1 Definitions <br />Words, terms and phrases, when used in this Section, shall have the meanings <br />ascribed to them as in Article 22. <br />8.8.17a.1a Additionallnformation <br />In addition to the information required in Subsections 8.2 and 8.8, the following <br />shall be submitted as part of the application. <br />a) A Site Plan showing the entire site (including property boundary lines) and <br />size of all existing structures within five hundred (500) feet of the site, <br />existing and proposed structures on site, the fall zone of the tower, existing <br />and proposed topography at a contour interval of five feet and any officially <br />designated floodways and floodplains, or the presence of alluvial soils. <br />b) Plans, and elevations for all proposed structures and descriptions of the <br />color and nature of all exterior material, along with the make, model, and <br />