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Approved 6.4.25
<br /> 441 AGENDA ITEM 4: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA
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<br /> 443 None.
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<br /> 445 AGENDA ITEM 5: PUBLIC CHARGE
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<br /> 447 Lamar Proctor read the Public Charge.
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<br /> 449 AGENDA ITEM 6: CHAIR COMMENTS
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<br /> 451 Lamar Proctor: I don't have any comments so I think we can move to the next agenda item,which is the UDO text
<br /> 452 amendment on telecommunication facilities. Pat,thank you.
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<br /> 454 AGENDA ITEM 7: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE(UDO)TEXT AMENDMENT—TELECOMMUNICATION FACILITIES-
<br /> 455 To review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on Planning Director-initiated amendments
<br /> 456 to the LIDO pertaining to telecommunication facilities. This amendment was reviewed at the April
<br /> 457 9, 2025, ORC meeting. The anticipated BOCC public hearing date is June 3, 2025.
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<br /> 459 Patrick Mallett: Good evening.You probably got an email from me today, apologies, but I set out some hard
<br /> 460 copies at each of your desks. They're color-coded for you. I'm just going to walk you through
<br /> 461 those before I jump into the presentation. These are essentially replacement items for the
<br /> 462 abstract and then adding statements of consistencies for Action Items Number 7 and 8. Seven is
<br /> 463 the telecom and then eight being the solar amendment. Both of these items should be familiar,for
<br /> 464 those of you that attended last month's meeting,we briefed it at the ORC, noticed at the last
<br /> 465 minute that we really need to include the statement of consistency, so my apologies for that late
<br /> 466 breaking change. The first attachment is a replacement on page,just so you can follow along
<br /> 467 and, and cross-reference in your agenda packet,that's the abstract for the telecom replaces
<br /> 468 Pages 42 and 43 of your agenda packet. The statement of consistency for that text change is
<br /> 469 Page 94 of your packets. You also have a letter from the Brough Law Firm, our consultants with
<br /> 470 the telecom RFP responding to industry comments including the CTIA letter that's right behind it,
<br /> 471 and then with the solar amendments, Pages 95 and 96,we've going to have replacements to the
<br /> 472 abstracts, and then Page 107,the statement of consistency, the very last page of your agenda
<br /> 473 packet. Like I said, I think this is pretty familiar to most of you because you saw it last month, and
<br /> 474 I'm going to be quick, and then we can follow along with more detailed questions if needed. The
<br /> 475 first one is Agenda Item Number 7. This is the telecommunications standards, Section 5.10 of the
<br /> 476 ordinance, and summary of the text amendment telecommunications, elements of the LIDO have
<br /> 477 not been changed since April 5th, 2011,the adoption of the ordinance. Since that adoption,there
<br /> 478 have been a quite good number of federal state laws pertaining to telecommunications that have
<br /> 479 changed. Our ordinance isn't consistent with current federal and state law in many respects.
<br /> 480 Technology has changed. The current roles and procedures don't really align with the public
<br /> 481 need. There was a gap in coverage and an equity issue, especially in the rural areas, and it
<br /> 482 doesn't currently meet all of the current public safety needs, as Kirby can attest. Next two slides
<br /> 483 are just maps that show where we stand today. These are the existing telecommunications tower
<br /> 484 sites by type. They're color-coded. It's hard to see the little dots, but you can see that they're kind
<br /> 485 of spread out and the density largely follows the urban corridors,the highways in the urban areas,
<br /> 486 and as you get out to the northern part of the county, they start to become almost nonexistent.
<br /> 487 This is another map that's'also available on our website. It's a telecommunications plan map.
<br /> 488 This is a bit misleading, but essentially what this map shows are sites where property owners
<br /> 489 have raised their hands, brought it to the commissioners and said I am willing to locate a site in
<br /> 490 this area, but you can see even with people raising their hands and the differences between these
<br /> 491 two,there's still a lot of white, a gap in large part to dumb it down, gaps in coverage. Summary of
<br /> 492 the proposed amendments, I'm going to go through these very quickly. At the end of this, I'll ask
<br /> 493 Al Benshoff and Lydia Lavelle, our consultants,to give sort of a summary of the changes, but the
<br /> 494 gist of it is that this amendment would repeal in whole the existing UDO Section 5.10 by the time
<br /> 495 you start putting a scalpel to it and trying to align it with federal and state laws,there's more
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