§ 10.13. Visibility of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities.

(A)

Wireless telecommunications facilities shall not be artificially lighted or marked, except as required by the FAA.

(B)

Stealth: All new wireless telecommunications facilities, including but not limited to towers, shall utilize stealth or camouflage techniques and technology to the extent practical, unless such can be shown to be either commercially or technologically impracticable.

(C)

Dual Mode: In order to minimize the number of antenna arrays and thus the visual impact, the county may require the use of dual mode antennas to be used, including by two different carriers, unless it can be proven that such will not work technologically and that such would have the effect of prohibiting the provision of service.

(D)

Tower Finish/Color: Towers shall be galvanized and/or painted with a rust-preventive paint of an appropriate color to harmonize with the surroundings and shall be maintained in accordance with the requirements of this article.

(E)

Lighting: If lighting is required, applicant shall provide a detailed plan for sufficient lighting of as unobtrusive and inoffensive an effect as is permissible under state and federal regulations. All towers requiring lighting shall be lighted to effectively eliminate the ground scatter effect of the lighting and to prevent the light from being seen from the ground.

(F)

Antenna Profile: All new or replacement antennas, except omnidirectional whip antennas, shall be attached to create the smallest profile reasonably possible under the facts and circumstances, unless it can be proven that to do so would prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the service.

(G)

Placement on Building—Facie: If attached to a building, all antennas shall be mounted on the face of the building and camouflaged to match the color and, if possible, texture of the building or in a manner so as to make the antennas as visually innocuous and undetectable as is possible given the facts and circumstances involved.

(H)

Lighting—Preventing Ground Scatter Effect: For any wireless facility for which lighting is required under the FAA's regulations, or that for any reason has lights attached, all such lighting shall be affixed with technology that enables the light to be seen as intended from the air, but that prevents the ground scatter effect so that it not able to be seen from the ground to a height of at least 12 degrees vertical for a distance of at least one mile in a level terrain situation. Such device must be compliant with or not in conflict with FAA regulations. A physical shield may be used, as long as the light can be seen from the air, as intended by the FAA.

(I)

In the event a lighted tower is modified, at the time of the modification the county may require that the tower be retrofitted with the technology set forth in the preceding subsection (F).

( Ord. No. 2010-07 , § I, 12-15-2009)