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Policies & Recommendations
The following policies and recommendations are proposed to promote and address the
goals, location, and preferred hierarchy provided above.
Policy 1: Provide guidance and ssistance to telecommunication facility applicants in
the siting and design of proposed facilities, consistent with the hierarchy of
preferred locations listed in this plan.
Recommendations
1.1
Require pre‐application discussions and/or meetings to review, comment on, and
guide the siting and design of proposed facilities.
1.2
Require minimum submittal standards.
1.3
Assist applicants in identifying potential locations by maintaining and making
available a current inventory of existing telecommunication facilities.
1.4
Identify publicly owned properties most suitable for siting telecommunication
facilities and create incentives for their use.
1.5
Identify other potential locations for siting telecommunication facilities consistent
with the Hierarchy of Preferred Locations and telecommunication facility types.
1.6
Provide a streamlined process for facilities that meet siting and design standards.
Establish a tiered approval process that incentivizes applicants to propose
telecommunication facilities in preferred locations using a preferred design with
administrative approval, while requiring other proposals to secure Town Council
approval.
1.7
Require shorter and concealed facilities in residential areas.
1.8
Encourage more, taller facilities in non‐residential areas. The increased visual impact
of taller facilities with more antenna arrays should be a consideration with this
approach.
1.9
Telecommunication facilities should be sited to minimize visual impacts from road
rights‐of‐way and neighborhoods.
1.10
As technology evolves, there may be other opportunities not currently considered.
The maps included in this report are not all‐inclusive and the Ordinance should
contain provisions allowing other opportunities to be reviewed on a case‐by‐case
basis.
Policy 2: Require techniques to minimize the visual impacts of telecommunication
facilities.
Recommendations
2.1 Require concealed telecommunication facility installations.
2.2 Require applicants to submit a visual analysis, such as a balloon test, and if visible to
the public propose measures to mitigate the visual impact.
2.3 Require that telecommunication facilities blend with the surroundings in shape, color,
material, and texture.
2.4 Require security fencing and landscape screening material around the compound area
to match that found in the vicinity.