Additional standards for special use permit: towers

In addition to the standards set forth in this article, the Zoning Board of Review shall make affirmative findings of fact relative to each of the following factors in determining whether to issue a special use permit for the construction of a cellular communications tower:

• A. Applicant has made reasonable efforts to utilize existing structures for a cellular communications antenna array and that no other structures are reasonably available within the area sought by the applicant to produce adequate communications coverage for the applicant.
• B. Applicant has made reasonable efforts to avoid the necessity of erecting a new tower, including but not limited to the construction of a permitted structure on which a cellular communications antenna array could be placed.
• C. Applicant's proposed tower comports with the surrounding topography, tree coverage and other natural elements of the landscape of the proposed site and applicant's property.
• D. Applicant's proposed tower comports with the design characteristics that reduce or eliminate adverse impacts on the community including type (guyed tower, lattice tower or monopole) of tower or antenna array, color of tower or antenna array, and overall visual obtrusiveness.