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ANALYSIS: Staff has identified two Honda local governments that have each engaged consultants to help create a wireless master plan and a re -write of telecommunications regulations. To obtain input for developing a scope of services, planning staff contacted both local governments, reviewed their plans and regulations. and identified necessary consultant activities to include in the scope. The two local governments whose wireless master plan/telecommunications regulation projects which staff reviewed were the City of Lakeland and Alachua County. • City of Lakeland and Alachua County Experience When the City of Lakeland created a master plan and re -wrote its telecommunications regulations, it engaged a land use planner for about $40.000, and separately hired a consultant who was an RF (radio frequency) engineer and attorney. According to Lakeland planning staff there have been few new towers proposed within the city limits, and there has been no evident need so far to adjust the city's regulations or plan In 1999/2000. Alachua County engaged the services of a land use planner for about $150,000, and separately hired an RF engineer to conduct a more comprehensive effort for master planning and re -writing the county's telecommunications regulations. Both Alachua County and Lakeland used Krienes and Krienes of Tiburon, California as their planning consultant. Indian River County staff are also aware of another consultant, City Scape. of Coral Springs Florida, that provides services for preparing wireless master plans and re -writing regulations. The wireless master plan for Lakeland (adopted 1997) consists of a 40 page policy document that includes a wireless facilities inventory problems and opportunities statement, evaluation of existing regulations, policies on visually sensitive/avoidance areas (e.g. lakeviews, downtown area, residential areas), policies on airport and environmental factors, cost recovery strategies, and siting and design criteria. The plan is considered the basis for Lakeland's regulations, and was backed- up technically by an engineering and legal consultant. Alachua County's wireless master plan (adopted June 2000) consists of a 109 page document containing a total of 5 reports. The reports cover: problems and opportunities, a review of existing county regulations, policy recommendations. language for legislation and guidelines, procedures and protocols for siting personal wireless facilities, and recovery of planning and implementation costs from applicants. Alachua County s wireless master plan is intended to spell -out the types of personal wireless facilities that the county wants and where it wants them. It should be noted that Alachua County's plan and regulations re -write addressed personal wireless facilities and did not address telecommunications broadcast facilities (e.g. TV and radio towers, amateur radio towers, private dispatch towers). • Scope of Services The heart of an RFP is the scope of services. In regard to developing a wireless master plan and re- writing telecommunications regulations for Indian River County, it is staffs opinion that planning, RF engineering, and legal services are needed and should be specified in the scope of services Staff has drafted a scope of services based upon local expenence, Alachua County's experience, and concerns recently expressed by the Board. The draft scope of services (see attachment # 4 ) is intended to provide for a comprehensive process for developing a wireless master plan and re- writing regulations for telecommunications facilities. February 13, 2001 80 BK 117PG092