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It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its meeting of October 8, 2002. BACKGROUND On August 13, 2002, the Board of County Commissioners considered a draft wireless master plan at a public workshop. At that meeting, the Board heard a presentation from Cityscape Consultants, received input from interested parties, and discussed various aspects of the plan with staff and Cityscape. (See Attachment #1). At that time, the Board directed Cityscape to coordinate with staff and make some changes and additions to the plan. Based on the Board's direction, Cityscape in coordination with staff has revised the wireless master plan. The Board is now to consider the revised plan and provide Cityscape and staff with comments for final changes. On November 5, 2002, the Board will consider the final wireless master plan and the final wireless facilities ordinance. • ANALYSIS Most of the components of the wireless master plan reviewed in August have been retained, and additions have been made to address Board comments. The plan has expanded from 46 to 58 pages. Changes and additions are summarized below. 1. Chapter 1: (Introduction) has been expanded generally and now includes the justification for allowing special exception approvals for "emergency communications" facilities (p. 4). 2. Chapter 5: (Selected County Property) has been significantly expanded to identify county properties as potential sites for stealth wireless facilities that may be used if approved by the county on a site -by -site basis (pp. 19-24). 3. Chapter 6. (Selected Schools) has been added to identify that school sites are potential sites for wireless facilities like stealth light pole structures. Chapter 6 states that such sites are under the control of the School Board and that any use of such sites would require School Board approval (pp. 25-27). 4. Chapter 8: (Conservation Areas) has been added to identify county conservation properties as potential sites for stealth wireless facilities that may be used if approved by the County (and any other entity with an interest in the property) on a site -by -site basis (pp. 32-33). Thus, conservation areas are treated similarly to the Chapter 5 selected county properties. 5. Chapter 9: (Compiled Site Analysis) has been expanded and includes a new section entitled `Implications of County Buildout' which concludes that existing and publicly owned potential stealth facilities sites could provide adequate coverage for most estimated wireless needs (pp. 34-41). 6. Chapter 11: (How to Use This Plan) has been added to provide step by step instructions for using the plan as a tool for evaluating requests for new wireless facilities. This Chapter will be highly useful to staff and wireless service providers (pp. 45-48) 7. Two new maps have been added. One shows conservation areas in relation to the wireless coverage grid (p. 33), and the other shows possible wireless coverage with use of county "Stealth' sites (p. 41). October 8, 2002 34