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• <br />L. LDR subsection 971.44(5) is hereby created, to read as follows: <br />"(5) Wireless commercial communications facilities (staff -level approval, administrative <br />permit, and special exception) <br />Sec. 1 Purpose and Intent and Siting Alternatives Hierarchy. <br />The purpose and intent of these regulations are to: <br />(a) Promote the health, safety and general welfare of the public by regulating the <br />siting of wireless communication facilities, including satellite earth stations; <br />and <br />(b) Minimize the impacts of wireless communication facilities on surrounding <br />areas by establishing standards for location, structural integrity and <br />compatibility; and <br />(c) Encourage the location and collocation of wireless communication equipment <br />on existing structures thereby minimizing new visual, aesthetic and public <br />safety impacts, effects upon the natural environment and wildlife, and to <br />reduce the need for additional antenna -supporting structures; and <br />(d) Accommodate the growing need and demand for wireless communication <br />services; and <br />(e) Encourage coordination between suppliers of wireless communication services <br />in Indian River County; and <br />(f) Respond to the policies embodied in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in <br />such a manner as not to unreasonably discriminate between providers of <br />functionally equivalent personal wireless service or to prohibit or have the <br />effect of prohibiting personal wireless service in the County, and <br />(g) Establish predictable and balanced regulations governing the construction and <br />location of wireless communications facilities, within the confines of <br />permissible local regulation, and <br />(h) (h) Establish review procedures to ensure that applications for wireless <br />communications facilities are reviewed and acted upon within a reasonable <br />period of time. <br />(i) Encourage the construction of new wireless communications facilities in <br />accordance with the Indian River County Wireless Facilities Master Plan. <br />Siting of a Wireless Communications Facility shall be in accordance with the following <br />siting alternatives hierarchy: <br />1. Facilities to be Located in areas identified in the Wireless Facility Master Plan <br />NOVEMBER 12, 2002 <br />95 <br />FF <br />a. <br />�Y4 <br />