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the existing building's architecture (c) Equipment shelters shall be camou- and, if over 5 square feet, shall be flaged behind an effective year-round painted or shielded with material landscape buffer, equal to the height which is consistent with the design of the proposed building, and/or features and materials of the building. wooden fence. The Planning Board shall determine if the style of fencing (c) Camouflage by Vegetation: and/or landscape buffer proposed is If personal wireless service facilities compatible with the neighborhood. are not camouflaged from public (3) Lighting and signage. viewing areas by existing buildings or structures, or are not located on exist- (a) Personal wireless service facilities ing structures or along a high tension shall be lighted only if required by the power line right of way, they shall be Federal Aviation Administration surrounded by buffers of dense tree (FAA). Lighting of equipment shel- growth and understory vegetation in tern and any other facilities on site all directions to create an effective shall be shielded from abutting prop- year-round visual buffer. Ground- erties.There shall be total cutoff of all mounted personal wireless service light at the property lines of the parcel facilities shall have a vegetated buffer to be developed, and footcandle mea- of 50 feet or more, and of sufficient surements at the property line shall be height to effectively screen the facili- 0.0 initial footcandles when measured ty.Trees and vegetation may be exist- at grade. ing on the subject property or (b) Signs shall be limited to those needed installed as part of the proposed facil- ity or a combination of both. The to identify the property and the owner and warn of any danger. All signs Planning Board shall determine the shall comply with the requirements of types of trees and plant materials and Article X of this bylaw. depth of the needed buffer based on site conditions and the height of the (c) All ground mounted personal wireless proposed tower. service facilities shall be surrounded (d) Color: by a security barrier. Personal wireless service facilities (4) Historic buildings and districts. that are side-mounted on buildings (a) Any personal wireless service facili- shall be painted or constructed of ties located on or within an historic materials to match the color of the structure shall not alter the character- building material directly behind defining features, distinctive con- them. struction methods, or original historic '? g To the extent that any personal wire- materials of the building. less service facility extends above the (b) Any alteration made to an historic height of the vegetation immediately structure to accommodate a personal surrounding it, it shall be painted in a wireless service facility shall be fully light gray or light blue hue that blends reversible. with sky and clouds. (c) Personal wireless service facilities (2) Equipment Shelters:Equipment shelters for within an historic district shall be con- personal wireless service facilities shall be cealed within or behind existing designed consistent with one of the follow- architectural features, such as towers, ing design standards: cupolas or spires, or shall be located so that they are not visible from pub- (a) Equipment shelters shall be located in lic roads and viewing areas within the underground vaults; or district. (b) Equipment shelters shall be designed (d) Copies of all plans for any personal consistent with traditional Cape Cod wireless service facility proposed in a architectural styles and materials, historic district,or within 1000 feet of with a roof pitch of at least 10/12 and a historic district or a structure or wood clapboard or shingle siding; or place listed on the Massachusetts i 102