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CURRENT LANGUAGE from the County's siting, building and permitting authority, excluding those used exclusively for the County's fire, police or exclusively for private, non-commercial radio and television reception and private CItIZen'S bands, amateur radio and other similar non- commercial Telecommunications where the height of the facility is below the height limits set forth in this ordinance. Section 5. Overall Policy and Desired Goals for Conditional Use Permits for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities. In order to ensure that the placement, construction, and modification of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities protects the County's health, safety, public welfare, environmental features, the nature and character of the community and neighborhood and other aspects of the quality of life specifically listed elsewhere in this Ordinance, the County hereby adopts an overall policy with respect to a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities for the express purpose of achieving the following goals: 1) Implementing an Application process for person(s) seeking a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities; 2) Establishing a policy for examining an application for and issuing a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities that is both fair and consistent. 3) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the sharing and/or co- location of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities among service providers; a) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities in such a manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area as the requested location of such Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, which shall mean using the least visually and physically intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially impracticable under the facts and circumstances, Section 6. Conditional Use Permit Application and Other Requirements. A) All Applicants for a Conditional Use Permit. for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities or any modification of such facility shall comply with the requirements set forth in this Ordinance. The County Commission is the officially designated agency or body of the County to whom applications for a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities must be made, and that is authorized to review, analyze, evaluate and make decisions with respect to granting or not granting, recertifying or not recertifying, or revoking Conditional Use C3