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May 17, 2004 Page 452
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<br />"Personal Wireless Services" or "PWS" or "Personal
<br />Telecommunications Service" or "PCS" shall have the same meaning as
<br />defined and used in the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
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<br />19.
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<br />"Telecommunication Site" See
<br />Telecommunications Facilities.
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<br />definition for Wireless
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<br />20.
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<br />"Stealth" or "Stealth Technology" means minimize adverse aesthetic
<br />and visual impacts on the land, property, buildings, and other
<br />facilities adjacent to, surrounding, and in generally the same area
<br />as the requested location of such Wireless Telecommunications
<br />Facilities, which shall mean using the least visually and physically
<br />intrusive facility that is not technologically or commercially
<br />impracticable under the facts and circumstances,.
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<br />21. "State" means the State of North Carolina.
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<br />23.
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<br />"Telecommunications" means the transmission and/or reception of
<br />audio, video, data, and other information by wire, radio frequency,
<br />light, and other electronic or electromagnetic systems.
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<br />"Telecommunications Structure" means a structure used in the
<br />provision of services described in the definition of ~Wireless
<br />Telecommunications Facilities'
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<br />24.
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<br />"Temporary" means, temporary in relation to all aspects and
<br />components of this Ordinance, something intended to, or that does,
<br />exist for fewer than ninety (90) days.
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<br />25.
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<br />"Wireless Telecommunications Facilities" means and includes a
<br />"Telecommunications Tower" and "Tower" and "Telecommunications Site"
<br />and "Personal Wireless Facility" means a structure, facility or
<br />location designed, or intended to be used as, or used to support,
<br />Antennas or other transmitting or receiving devices. This includes
<br />without limit, Towers of all types and kinds and structures that
<br />employ camouflage technology, including, but not limited to
<br />structures such as a multi-story building, church steeple, silo,
<br />water tower, sign or other structures that can be used to mitigate
<br />the visual impact of an Antenna or the functional equivalent of
<br />such, including all related facilities such as cabling, equipment
<br />shelters and other structures associated with the site. It is a
<br />structure and facility intended for transmitting and/or receiving
<br />radio, television, cellular, paging, 911, personal
<br />Telecommunications services, commercial satellite services,
<br />microwave services and services not licensed by the FCC, but not
<br />expressly exempt from the County's siting, building and permitting
<br />authority, excluding those used exclusively for the County's fire,
<br />police or exclusively for private, non-commercial radio and
<br />television reception and private citizen's bands, amateur radio and
<br />other similar non-commercial Telecommunications where the height of
<br />the facility is below the height limits set forth in this ordinance.
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<br />Section 5. Overall Policy and Desired Goals for Conditional Use Permits for
<br />Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.
<br />In order to ensure that the placement, construction, and modification of
<br />Wireless Telecommunications Facilities protects the County's health, safety,
<br />public welfare, environmental features, the nature and character of the
<br />community and neighborhood and other aspects of the quality of life
<br />specifically listed elsewhere in this Ordinance, the County hereby adopts an
<br />overall policy with respect to a Conditional Use Permit for Wireless
<br />Telecommunications Facilities for the express purpose of achieving the
<br />following goals:
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<br /> 1) Implementing an Application process for person(s) seeking a
<br /> Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities;
<br />2) Establishing a policy for examining an application for and issuing a
<br /> Conditional Use Permit for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
<br /> that is both fair and consistent.
<br />3) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the sharing and/or co-
<br /> location of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities among service
<br /> providers;
<br />4) Promoting and encouraging, wherever possible, the placement, height
<br /> and quantity of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities in such a
<br /> manner, including but not limited to the use of stealth technology,
<br /> to minimize adverse aesthetic and visual impacts on the land,
<br /> property, buildings, and other facilities adjacent to, surrounding,
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