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Land-based - Land-based shall mean wholly located on upland including any guy wires as may be required. SFGA - Special Permit Granting Authority (SPCA) for Wind Energy Conversion Facilities shall be the Planning Board WECF - Wind energy Conversion Facility (WECF). All equipment, machinery and structures utilized in connection with conversion of wind to electricity. This includes, but is not limited to, all transmission, storage, collection and supply equipment, substations, transformers, site access, service roads and machinery associated with the use.: A wind Energy Conversion Facility may include one or more wind turbines. Met Tower - Wind Monitoring or Meteorological ("test" or "met"') "Tower. Tower used for supporting anemometer, grind vane and other equipment to assess the grind resource at a predetermined height above the ground. Wind Turbine - A device that converts kinetic energy of the wind into rotational energy to turn an electrical generator Shaft. C. Use Regulations. WECFs or Met Towers shall require a building permit. The construction of any WECF or Met Tower may be permitted in all. zoning districts, subject to issuance of a special permit by the Planing Board and provided the proposed use complies with provisions of this section (unless waived by the Board) and any other applicable provisions of this chapter. Any subsequent change or modification of a WECF shall. be subject to Planning Board approval of a modification to the original special permit under the provisions p p of Section174-24.C.(9). D, Dimensional Requirements (1) Type. Tilt-up towers, fixed-guyed towers, freestanding towers or other designs may be considered for approval. WECFs may not be roof mounted or otherwise attached to buildings. (2) Setback: The base of any WECF shall be set back from any property line or road layout line to the center of the tower by not less than 1 % of the proposed height of the tower if abutting residentially zoned properties and o% of the proposed height of the tower if abutting nor-resi.den.ti.ally zoned properties. Guy wires or any WECF-related constructor not wholly below grade, as may be required by the proposed design, shall be set back at least 20 feet from property lines, and 30 feet from road layout lies. Other setbacks shall conform to the required building setbacks of the zone in which the subject property is located. Guy wire anchors shall be of sufficient depth and length as to ensure safe operation of the WECF. The SPGA may allow the setback to be reduced as 35