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Hti„Fi:£ • Since April, CityScape has continued to work on its draft wireless master plan and associated inventory of existing towers In so doing, CityScape has coordinated with county staff and received staff comments. Now, the draft wireless master plan is available for the Board's review. ANALYSIS Two documents are associated with the draft plan: the "Wireless Facility Inventory” (August 2002) and the "Wireless Facility Master Plan" (August 2002). Those documents are attached. The inventory provides information and maps that comprise a wireless facilities network database of existing and potential sites for antennas and towers. Inventory information relates to location, coverage, capacity and collocation issues. The wireless master plan is a planning tool that includes a forecast of future wireless facilities demands, siting and land use policies, and a technical framework for analyzing requests for new facilities. No wireless services providers fully participated in the master planning process; therefore, the master plan does not propose a set of pre -approved" collocation or new facility sites for any particular provider's planned future deployment. At the August 13th workshop, however, CityScape will review specific county -owned sites to determine which sites the Board feels are appropriate for accommodating wireless facilities. Such decisions can include limiting the type of facility (e.g. stealth) that the Board will allow or "pre -approve" on a given county -owned site. Regardless of any restricted "pre -approval" the county will always have the option of going through the application process, under the LDRs, to meet future communications needs that might arise. At the workshop, staff will discuss the possibility of designating several existing county -owned tower sites, including the Hobart Park site and the south county transfer station site, as "tower cluster sites" for broadcast and wireless facilities. Although the tower cluster concept is referenced in the county's non - wireless facilities LDRs, no cluster proposal has actually been proposed or considered to date. The Board may wish to apply this concept to the Hobart Park and south county sites, and incorporate the concept into the master plan. After the workshop, CityScape will fully address county continents and revise the wireless master plan and inventory documents. CityScape will then present the revised plan to the Board for adoption. Once the master plan is adopted, CityScape will complete the third task previously referenced That task relates to development of "final" wireless facilities regulations. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners review the draft wireless master plan, and provide comments to staff and CityScape for finalizing the wireless master plan. ATTACHMENTS 1. Update from CityScape (dated August 7, 2002) 2. Wireless Facility Inventory (August 2002) 3. Wireless Facility Master Plan (August 2002) AUGUST 13, 2002 3 .'f v •