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TO: James E. Chandler <br />County Administrator <br />TMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE <br />obert M. eating, AIC <br />Community Developmen Direct <br />4.11 <br />FROM: <br />Stan Boling, AICP <br />Planning Director <br />DATE: August 7, 2002 <br />SUBJECT: Consideration of Draft Wireless Master Plan <br />It is requested that the data herein be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners <br />at its workshop of August 13, 2002. <br />BACKGROUND <br />In June 2001, the county entered into a contract with CityScape Siting and Management; Inc. to re -write <br />the county's wireless facilities regulations and develop a wireless master plan. The overall process <br />being followed by CityScape and the county is as follows: <br />1. Develop and adopt an "interim" wireless facilities ordinance and terminate the moratorium on <br />applications for new towers. <br />2. Complete development of and adopt a wireless master plan. <br />3. Refine and adjust the interim ordinance by adopting any desired ordinance modifications, <br />resulting in "final" regulations. <br />The first step was completed on April 2, 2002, when the Board of County Commissioners adopted an <br />`interim" wireless telecommunications ordinance. Although the ordinance is referred to as an "intenm" <br />ordinance, it is comprehensive and detailed. The result is that the county now has a new set of <br />regulations for wireless facilities, and has retained the previous set of tower regulations to apply to non - <br />wireless towers (e.g radio and TV broadcast facilities). At the time of the April 2nd ordinance adoption, <br />the Board also terminated the moratorium on applications for new towers; that moratorium had been in <br />effect since January 2001 To date, no applications for new towers have been applied for under the new <br />ordinance. <br />AUGUST 13, 2002 <br />