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types and kinds and structures that employ camouflage technology, including, but not limited to
<br />structures such as a multi-story building, church steeple, silo, water tower, s~gn or other
<br />structures that can be used to mitigate the visual impact of an Antenna or the functional
<br />equivalent of such, including all related facilities such as cabhng, equipment shelters and other
<br />structures associated with the s~te. It is a structure and facility intended for transmitting and/or
<br />receiving radio, television, cellular, paging, 911, personal Telecommunications services,
<br />commercial satellite services, microwave services and services not licensed by the FCC, but not
<br />expressly exempt from the County's siting, building and permitting authority, excluding those
<br />used exclusively for the County's fire, police or exclusively for private, non-commercial radio
<br />and television reception and private citizen's bands, amateur radio and other similar non-
<br />commercial Telecommumcations where the height of the famhty is below the height limits set
<br />forth in this ordinance.
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<br />Section 5. Overall Policy and Desired Goals for Conditional Use
<br /> Permits for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
<br /> In order to ensure that the placement, construct]on, and modification of Wireless Telecommumcat]ons
<br /> Fac~ht~es protects the County's health, safety, public welfare, environmental features, the nature and
<br /> character of the community and neighborhood and other aspects of the quahty of life spemfically hsted
<br /> elsewhere in this Ordinance, the County hereby adopts an overall policy with respect to a Conditional
<br /> Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities for the express purpose of achieving the
<br /> followtng goals:
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<br />1) Implementtng an Application process for person(s) seeking a Conditional Use Permit for
<br /> Wtreless Telecommumcat]ons Facilities;
<br />2) Establishing a policy for examining an application for and issuing a Conditional Use Permit
<br /> for Wtreless Telecommunications Facilities that is both fmr and consistent.
<br />3) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the sharing and/or co-location of Wireless
<br /> Telecommunications Facilities among service providers;
<br />4) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height and quantity of
<br /> Wireless Telecommunications Fatalities in such a manner, including but not limited to the
<br /> use of stealth technology, to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land,
<br /> property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same
<br /> area as the requested locatmn of such Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, which shall
<br /> mean usmg the least visually and physically intrusive famhty that ts not technologically or
<br /> commercially tmpractmable under the facts and circumstances,.
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<br />Section 6. Conditional Use Permit Application and Other
<br /> Requirements.
<br /> A) All Applicants for a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities or any
<br /> modification of such facility shall comply with the requirements set forth ]n this Ordinance. The
<br /> County Commission ]s the officially designated agency or body of the County to whom
<br /> apphcat~ons for a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities must be
<br /> made, and that ]s authorized to review, analyze, evaluate and make decisions with respect to
<br /> granting or not granting, recertifying or not recert]fy]ng, or revoking Condmonal Use Permxts for
<br /> Wireless Telecommunications Facilities. The County may at its discretion delegate or designate
<br /> other official agencies of the County to accept, review, analyze, evaluate and make
<br /> recommendations to the County Commission with respect to the granting or not granting,
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