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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - 11-15-2011 - 5gORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 15, 2011 Action Agenda Item No. ~°E,7i SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance Amendment Outline and Schedule for Upcoming Master Telecommunications Plan Item DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Atlas Glenn Bowles, Planner II, 245-2577 Amendment Outline Form (UDO/Zoning Craig Benedict, Director, 245-2575 2012-09) - Master Telecommunications Plan PURPOSE: To consider adding sites to the Master Telecommunications Plan as a Planning Director initiated item for the February 27, 2012 quarterly public hearing. BACKGROUND: One additional item is currently being prepared by Planning staff for the February 27, 2012 quarterly public hearing. Other items for consideration were approved at the November 1, 2011 meeting. This item is to add additional tower sites to the adopted Master Telecommunications Plan Map (see attachment). Each year additional sites may be enrolled including public sites, non-profits, and private property owners. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Please refer to Section C.3 of attachment. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends the Board approve the attached Amendment Outline and direct staff to proceed accordingly. 2 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN /FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) AMENDMENT OUTLINE UDO /Zoning-2012-09 A. AMENDMENT TYPE Map Amendments ^ Land Use Element Map: From: To: ^ Zoning Map: From: To: ® Other: Addition of new telecommunication tower sites to the adopted Master Telecommunications Plan Map per Section 5.10.2 of the UDO Text Amendments ^ Comprehensive Plan Text: Section(s): ^ UDO Text: ^UDO General Text Changes ^UDO Development Standards ^UDO Development Approval Processes Section(s): ^ Other: B. RATIONALE 1. Purpose/Mission Section 5.10.2 of the UDO enables Orange County to develop and adopt a Master Telecommunications Plan Map (hereafter `MTP'). The purpose of the MTP is to display properties where owners have expressed interest in allowing wireless telecommunication facilities to be constructed. The BOCC first reviewed the MTP at '. its February 29, 2011 Joint Quarterly Public Hearing and adopted it subsequently. !, 1 3 _ ___ According to Sub-section 5.10.2(D)(2) of the UDO. Additions or modifications to the Plan are reviewed annually, as warranted, by the BOCC at the February Quarterly Public Hearing. Applications to add to withdraw from or otherwise modify the Plan are required to be filed with the Planning Director prior to December 1St of each year. The need for public safety, wireless broadband, and information technology connectivity continues to be in high demand. 2. Analysis The MTP essentially serves as a marketing tool to allow the County to provide some direction on where available properties, suitable for the development of wireless support structures, are located. Available properties include those where existing property owners have expressed formal, written, interest in allowing for the development of a wireless support structure. It should be remembered that the modification of the MTP does not create an automatic exemption for the various denoted properties from the review and approval processes as prescribed by the UDO with respect to the development of wireless support structures. Based on reports, certain areas show coverage weaknesses and other areas with coverage often have capacity issues. 3. Comprehensive Plan Linkage (i.e. Principles, Goals and Objectives) Economic Development Goal 2: Infrastructure that supports desired development Objective ED-2.11: Establish adequate information networks throughout the towns and County. Services and Community Facilities Goal 7:.Efficient and effective public safety including, police, fire, telecommunications, emergency services, and animal services. Objective PS-T-6: Develop a mechanism for cooperation with telecommunication facilities stakeholders regarding the siting and design of towers. Objective PS-T-7: Manage the number of future wireless telecommunication facilities by identifying preferred locations capable of accommodating service Countywide. Objective PS-T-8: Encourage the expansion of affordable, high-speed internet access, fiber-optic lines, and other high-speed communication networks to rural and underserved areas. Objective PS-9: Maintain a radio communication system that ensures reliable notification and oversight of emergency assets, such as personnel vehicles, and response equipment throughout Orange County and inter-operability of communication among jurisdictions. 4. New Statutes and Rules Not applicable. C. PROCESS 2 4 1. TIMEFRAME/MILESTONES/DEADLINES a. BOCC Authorization to Proceed __ November 15, 2012 b. Quarterly Public Hearing _ _ _ __ _ _ February 27, 2011 c. BOCC .Updates/Checkpoints February Quarterly Public. Hearing legal ad approved on February 7, 2012. d. Other _ _ __ Requests for modifications by staff received on or before December 1, 2011 2. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM Mission/Scope: Public Hearing process consistent with NC State Statutes and Orange County ordinance requirements.. 3. FISCAL IMPACT Expenditures for this project will be paid using Departmental funds budgeted for the specific activity. Expenditures include the legal advertisement of the public hearing. Existing Planning staff included in the Departmental staffing budget will accomplish the work required to process this amendment. It should be noted that Orange County may receive,co-location rents from private 3 5 broadband access providers if facilities are located on County owned properties. Building tower facilities, with public communication technologies, on County or other similar quasi-public properties (i.e. OWASA sites, fire stations, etc.) will forego the need for providers to purchase additional private property to accomplish the same task. __ _ _ D. AMENDMENT IMPLICATIONS __ _ __ _ - __ The MTP will be updated with a listing of additional properties that are available for the potential location of wireless telecommunication facilities to address under- and un- .served portions of Orange County. _ _ __ E. SPECIFIC AMENDMENT LANGUAGE There is no specific amendment language required. Please refer to the attached map denoting the proposed amendments to the MTP. Primary Staff Contact: Glenn R. Bowles, Planner II Planning and Inspections Department 919 245 2577 g bowies@co. orange. nc. us 4 -___ Telecommunication Plan Map Sites I (E-1) -----------------j Piedmont Electric Tower I (P-2) Cedar ~ (P-1) Cedar as Grove Park Grove Fire Department 15 (P-3) Caldwell Fire Department I' / 1 ~. (P~) ' Future Northeast (P-15) Scott Property Pam ,. 5 I. '' (P-7) Buckhorn Road (P-5) Walnut Grove SW Site '~ ~l ` (P-6) Eno Fire and ~y (E-2) Emergency Services 70 Occoneechee Tower •~t . 4 (E-3) ~• EMS Tower ~° ~' ~~' (I'-e) County f Soccer Fields (E-4) ~,~ ~ PiedmoM Electric Tower (P-9) Piedmont Electric Tower (P-11) ID X OWASA - ,- ° Properly j` 1 1 ~ (P-10) County Park Site ~I ~ ~ 501 t 15 t ~ i 12 j (P- ) 1 American Storms 1 Quarry L` ~ ~ !' - 1 ~ ~ `~ r ``, 501 t t...__ -.n.-~._._._.-_---- 15 -_ (P-13) White ----- ---~_---------- ---- _ _VJ Cross Fire Department (P-14) Mellot Property Existing Tower Locations Proposed Tower Locations Approved Tower Locations 2 Mile Buffer 6 •''~ . 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