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'Lq 1997 Eugene adopted Our telecommunication devised siting requirements and. procedures Section of our code, section 9.5750. The purposes of that.code were to: 1. minimize the number of towers throughout our community 2. encourage collocation of facilities ' 3.. encourage the use of existing buildings, or poles as opposed to constmctihg new towers 4. 'recognize the need of providers to build out their systems & 5. ensure that facilities are designed to minimize the visual impact On the immediate surroUndings & throughout the community, minimize public inconvenience & disruption. Go through numbers on chart. The code attempts to promote collocation by streamlining the process by allowing outright, antenna collocations in most zones and by putting restrictions and limitations on collocations in some of our more sensitive zones. ,- Regarding new towers~ our cOde all ws them outri dustrial and our commercial/industrial hybrid zone, C-4. Our code requires site review, a slightly more complicated process i~ Y~u're ih a public lands zone or some of our other commercial zones, and if the proposal is in our more sensitive single family, commercial and general office zOnes, a conditional use permit is required. New transmission towers are prohibited by our code in Agriculture, R-2, R-3, R-4, Historic, Natural Resource and Parks, Recreation & Open zones, in the Willamette Greenway, on Gillespie Butte above 450' in elevation, on the ridgeline defined in the south hills study or on Judldns point. Our code currently outlines submittal requirements for new towers and includes a requirement that documentation demonstrating compliance with non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (NIER) emissions standards as set forth by the Federal CommUnications Commission. If a proposal is kicked into a site review or conditional use situation, if it's in one of those situations I described earlier, documentation also must -be submitted showing that alternative sites within 2000 feet have been considered and are determined to by unfeasible or unavailable, code asks applicants to consider sites that are in some of the less sensitive zones (industrial and heavy commercial). Also required is evidence that demonstrates it is impractical to collocate on tall buildings, light poles or eXisting towers and it outlines reasons that are acceptable about why it would be infeasible. New towers have to be at least 2000 feet away from towers that existed prior to adoption of the code in 1997. IV-19