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Planning Director Stan Boling noted during his overview that <br />the chart showing the industry's projected demand is for antennae, <br />not new towers. <br />Director Boling explained that if towers are to be acceptable <br />with regard to aesthetics, it is important that incentives be <br />encouraged, such as using a tall structure that could be <br />restructured for use as an antenna. Another incentive would be <br />that small towers could be approved administratively if they met <br />certain criteria. Industry representatives have said they would be <br />very responsive to incentives. Director Boling showed examples of <br />some types of towers for which staff feels there should be <br />incentives. One suggestion would be to have an annual meeting to <br />look at what is coming forward in the next year to enable us to <br />plan ahead and perhaps avoid some new tower applications. <br />Commissioner Eggert questioned an incentive shown as 2(g) on <br />Chart A which would allow replacement of non -conforming towers with <br />new, multiple user towers that are not required to meet new <br />setbacks. <br />Director Boling explained that there are some existing towers <br />that would not meet some of the new setbacks being proposed. He <br />lives about 500 feet away from a 175 -ft. tower, but he cannot see <br />it from his home because of the trees in his neighborhood. <br />However, that is a single user tower and one incentive would be to <br />allow a replacement of a multiple user tower to be built on the <br />same site that could not meet some of the setback criteria being <br />proposed for the future. That alternative was discussed at length <br />with the Professional Services Advisory Committee and the Planning <br />& Zoning Commission which recommended it as an alternative. <br />Commissioner Eggert also questioned an incentive shown as 6(b) <br />on Chart B which exempts monopoles from co -location requirements. <br />Director Boling admitted there are some strategies that <br />conflict, but they are all based on aesthetics. The idea is that <br />it is a trade off because monopole towers are not as wide or bulky <br />as lattice towers and do not have the aesthetic impact. <br />Commissioner Eggert expressed concern that the industry might <br />take advantage of the incentives. <br />Chairman Adams stated that the whole incentive issue really <br />bothers her because she felt that if the industry had been as <br />concerned as they seem to be now with the moratorium in effect, <br />they would have addressed a lot of these problems and tried to work <br />them out. She didn't favor any easy route by authorizing staff to <br />13 <br />DECEMBER 19, 1996 W <br />