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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes October 16, 2003 Page 6 Mr. Marshall said he has already done some of that. He said the very first case that came up there was a little bit of contention between the experts and the Board. He said he talked specifically to that director about that issue and he said it was really a matter of them getting comfortable with suddenly having information from both sides. They were having a little difficulty with this new knowledge and ur~derstanding from both sides. Mr. Marshall said one of the things Trigon wants to do is Io0k at some amendments to our existing ordinance. He said he assume that the Board Want to go forward with this. The stages would be that staff would bring back to the Board ordinance amendments that ultimately would have to go on to the Board of Commissioners. l~n term, even though it is in escrow, we would go ahead out front and identify those fees of that escrow amount and all those different charges and the set-up for this. When it goes before the Commissioners it will be understood that there will be a fee for these firms coming in. They will have to pay into this escrow account that money that we pay out for this firm to do the independent review. Mr. Marshall said as quickly as they can get us their model ordinance we can tailor it to our regulations and get it back before the Board. He said staff has ~nt this information out and contacted the other planning board's about coming here this evening. Mr. Marshall said staff is going to be asking Harrisburg, Mt. Pleasant and Midland if they are interested in the same thing. We have also communicated this to the City of Concord and Kannapolis. The Chair said we will be receiving escrow from the beginning because obviously they are not going to give us their model ordinance until something like that has been paid. Mr. Marshall said no they supply the model ordinance without cost. Example - the next time AT&T wants to put a tower in, they would pay their normal application fee to us for processing. But, in addition, they would have to set up an escrow account with us where they would put up $8,500 into an escrow account. When we get the application they would begin review of that at the same time. Mr. Marshall said one of the things that have been attracted to us is the turnaround. We do have some responsibility to make sure we have a turnaround on these.