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4 no give a blanket permit for an area. She felt it needs to come to the Commission because we have to answer to the folks that live in this county. Chairman Adams considered it a threat when the industry representatives said that if they didn't do towers greater than 175 feet, they would have to do a lot of smaller ones. The truth of the matter is that most of these towers are going to be built in the next couple of years and the industry's emphasis is on getting in and getting its territories straight as quickly as possible and then worry about the rest of it later. Chairman Adams was sorry she felt that way but the reason she does is due to the effort they are making now to deal with the FDOT to circumvent County regulations, plus the two tower applications that came in just before the moratorium went into effect. Chairman Adams didn't favor offering administrative approval as an incentive; she wanted each application to come before the Board. She was worried about the residents, not the carriers. The people in this county have to live with these towers. She would think the carriers would be busy designing something unobtrusive that would sit on fences along I-95. Commissioner Ginn wondered if staff's approach of putting this in our zoning laws is wrong. She felt we should prepare a wireless master plan during the 6 -month moratorium. Commissioner Ginn made the following points in favor of doing a master plan: • A master plan would provide us with a plan for compensation for use of our rights-of-way, and perhaps we could contact rights-of-way expert Dr. Eugene Webb over in St. Petersburg. • A master plan would determine the number of poles or antennae that would be necessary to cover our county. Time is of the essence, however, and the county would be better served if we pre -determined the locations. • A master plan will include more than just cellular and personal communications services; other bands would be included. • There is no government requirement for us to accept the tower approach over shorter mounts. Commissioner Ginn emphasized that we would have a total communications build out plan and could recover the cost through the permitting process. A recent news letter reported that a city or county can require short antennae mounts and can tell the industry where they want the cell sites located before they deal with how they site them. In California 50% of antenna mounts are 14 DECEMBER 19, 1996