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8 <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 is <br /> located appropriately on the facility with the overall goal being to preserve <br /> the carrying capacity of the facility for future collocations and to minimize <br /> the visual intrusiveness and impact, including the profile of the 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 /> 6) Approval of the Planning Director to verify consistency with the <br /> definition 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. <br /> For all wireless support structures attached to existing structures, the <br /> engineer certification statement shall include certification that the structure <br /> can support the load superimposed from the wireless support structure. All <br /> wireless support structures shall have the capacity to permit multiple <br /> users; at a minimum monopole wireless support structures shall be <br /> structurally designed to accommodate four users and self-support/lattice <br /> or guyed wireless support structures shall, at a minimum accommodate <br /> three users. <br /> LOCATION OF TOWERS: <br /> Section 5.10.8 (B) (4) (b) of the UDO contains standards with the respect to the location <br /> of towers reading as follows: <br /> Location of Wireless Support Structures. <br /> (i) Applicants for facilities shall locate, site, and erect said facilities <br /> according to the following priorities, in the following order. <br /> a. On existing County-owned facilities without increasing the height of <br /> the tower or structure. <br /> b. On existing Facilities without increasing the height of the tower or <br /> structure. <br /> c. On County-owned properties or facilities. <br /> d. On properties in areas zoned for commercial or industrial use. <br /> e. On properties in areas zoned Agricultural Residential (AR). <br /> f. On properties in areas zoned for residential use. <br /> In reviewing the appropriateness of any tower application, this list of preferences is required <br /> to be a component of that review. <br />