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142 is provided in Appendix E. The timeline shown on Page 3 charts key public hearings, stakeholder meetings, separate departmental meetings and county correspondence regarding the MTP process since March 2002. Why Uo the Plan? Within the County are important natural and cultural resources that telecommunication facilities may negatively and irreparably impact. Planners can use the County Environmental Impact Ordinance to identify such resources after the fact during the review of an application for a telecommunication tower special use permit; or the planning staff can give landowners, the general public and telecommunication industry representatives MTP information in advance of the application process that will guide and influence the potential siting of communication facilities. The MTP will help identify public lands not appropriate for tower sites. Such public lands may include Orange County Nature Preserves, the Little River Regional Pazk, New Hope Park, Lake Orange, and the Eno River State Pazk. Other public and private lands aze identified that may also be inappropriate as tower sites, such as natural areas and wildlife corridors, lands under conservation easements, prime forest and agricultural lands, cultural and historic sites and lands adjoining scenic corridors. The MTP includes existing towers, tower sites in neighboring counties, two-mile buffer around each tower, major electric power transmission lines, County-defined Natural Areas, historic properties, properties with archaeological potential, scenic corridors, known bird migration patterns through the County, Voluntary Agricultural Districts, and publicly-owned orquasi-public lands. The MTP contains specific information concerning the mitigation of potential dangers to migratory birds. However, [here are a number of public and private lands identified in the MTP that could make acceptable tower sites, such as fire halls, community centers, OWASA properties, certain county parks and possibly some school sites, together with private lands in certain portions of Duke Forest and voluntary agricultural districts represent possible future sites for collocated telecommunication facilities. Using two-mile buffers around the existing tower sites, and by locating major electric power transmission lines, possible antenna co-location sites aze plotted in the MTP. The displayed buffer areas also trelp identify regions of the County where communications facilities may not exist. The purpose of the MTP is to identify properties within the County where wireless telecommunications providers are encouraged to reseaznh prior to submittal of an 2