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requirements, lot-coverage requirements, and other such requirements, the <br />dimensions of the entire lot shall control, even though the wireless <br />telecommunications facility may be located on leased parcels within such lots. <br /> <br />2. Co-Location. All new wireless telecommunications facilities shall co-locate with <br />other existing or with planned new wireless telecommunications facilities <br />whenever feasible and when doing so will minimize potential visual impacts. <br />Co-locations shall be processed in accordance with the prevailing State <br />and/or Federal rules and regulations. guidelines. <br /> <br />F. Specific Design Criteria. The following design standards shall govern the siting, <br />design and location of all wireless telecommunications facilities; provided, however, <br />that the Board of Zoning Adjustments may waive these requirements if it <br />determines that the goals of this Section are better served thereby. <br /> <br />1. Freestanding Towers and Ground-Mounted Facilities. <br /> <br />a. Freestanding towers and ground-mounted wireless telecommunications <br />facilities shall either maintain a galvanized steel finish or be painted a <br />neutral color, as determined by the City, so as to reduce visual impacts <br />and blend into the landscape or visual backdrop against which they will be <br />seen to the greatest extent possible, unless otherwise required by the <br />FAA. <br /> <br />b. Freestanding and ground-mounted wireless telecommunications facilities <br />shall incorporate camouflaging techniques, such as alternative tower <br />structures, wherever feasible and shall be located in areas where existing <br />topography, vegetation, buildings or other structures provide the greatest <br />amount of screening to minimize visual impacts. <br /> <br />c. Alternative tower structures, such as treepoles shall incorporate enough <br />architectural branches (including density, needle count and vertical <br />height), three (3) dimensional bark cladding, and other design materials or <br />appropriate techniques to cause the structure to appear as a natural <br />element of the environment. Treepoles shall be integrated into the <br />surrounding environment through the planting of trees and/or shrubs <br />distributed around the entire facility to appear as a naturally occurring or <br />integrated landscape element. <br /> <br />d. Alternative tower structures, such as flag poles shall be tapered to <br />maintain the appearance of an actual flag pole. A flag shall be flown from <br />the wireless facility and properly lighted and maintained at all times, in <br />accordance with the U.S. Flag Code. <br /> <br />Proposed Amended Article 16 <br /> <br />Note: underlined and bolded text represents new text; strike through represents text to be eliminated Page 10