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(4) Security fencing requirements may be waived by the director of neighborhood development services or his designee, for alternative tower structures. • Sec. 34-691. Signs and Advertising. (a) No sign(s) shall be permitted on any communications facility, except as may be required for public safety purposes, or as required by the FAA or FCC. (b) No materials or markings containing any advertising or advertisement shall be permitted on any communications facility. Sec. 34-692. Visibility and placement. (a) Attached communications facilities shall comply with the following requirements as to visibility and placement: (1) Where such facilities are visible from adjacent properties, or from public rights -0f -way, they shall be designed and located so as to blend in with the existing structure to the maximum extent feasible, through measures such as placement in the least visible location which is consistent with proper functioning of the communications equipment, and use of compatible or neutral colors. (2) Where such facilities are visible to residences, but have a visual impact that cannot reasonably be mitigated by placement and color solutions, the facilities shall be screened from view or concealed. (3) Antennas and any supporting electrical and mechanical equipment shall be of a neutral color that is compatible with the color of the attachment structure, so as to make the antenna and • related equipment as visually unobtrusive as possible. (b) All support structures shall be of a galvanized finish, or painted gray, above the surrounding treeline or built environment. Below the surrounding treeline support structures shall painted gray or green; or, below the line of the surrounding built environment such structures shall be painted in a neutral color that will blend with the surrounding built environment. These requirements shall apply unless other coloring or marking is required by FAA or FCC regulations. (c) Equipment shelters shall, to the extent practicable, use materials, colors, textures screening and landscaping that will blend with the natural setting and built environment. The equipment shelters and/or cabinets used ancillary to a microcell shall be contained wholly within a building or structure, or otherwise concealed and camouflaged, or located underground. (d) Antennas and other broadcasting or receiving equipment collocated on a single support structure or attachment structure shall, to the greatest extent feasible, be of similar size, design, coloring and appearance. (e) As long as all siting, setback, separation and general requirements of this article are met, freestanding communications facilities may occupy a parcel meeting the minimum lot size requirements for the zoning district in which they are located., (f) For freestanding communications facilities with a height in excess of 150 feet, the number and placement of antennas or other receiving or transmitting devices collocated on a single support structure shall be limited so that, in the aggregate, the facility(ies) will not have an excessive adverse visual impact on adjacent properties, or on the view from any historic or entrance corridor overlay district. Page 7 of 13