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EXHIBIT B feasible. At the applicant's expense,the City may hire an expert to review the provider's evidence and determine whether other locations may be feasible. 6. Visibility from Freeways. Personal wireless service facilities shall be prohibited at locations that are readily visible from the I-580 and I-680 freeways unless the provider can demonstrate that there are no other feasible sites and that every effort has been made to conceal or camouflage the facility. 7. Exception Required to Meet State or Federal Law. The decision-making body may grant an exception to any requirement of this ordinance, including the Locational Priorities in this section, if the applicant can show that strict compliance with the code would violate federal or state law. 18.110.060 Collocation. The zoning administrator may require a personal wireless service provider to collocate its personal wireless service facilities with other existing or proposed facilities if the proposed antennas would comply with the provisions of this chapter and it would be structurally and technically feasible that the collocation site can service the same or a similar coverage area as proposed; and if the zoning administrator determines that the proposed personal wireless service facilities would have less of an adverse visual impact than two or more single noncollocated personal wireless service facilities. (Ord. 1743 § 1, 1998) 18.110.070 Stealth techniques. A. All personal wireless service facilities shall be located so as to minimize their visibility and, unless determined by the zoning administrator to be concealed from view, designed to ensure that they will not appear as an antenna facility. To minimize visual impacts,all personal wireless service facilities determined by the zoning administrator to be visible to the public or properties in the vicinity shall incorporate appropriate stealth techniques to camouflage,disguise and/or blend them into the surrounding environment. Personal wireless service facilities shall be in scale and architecturally integrated with surrounding building design(s)or natural setting in such a manner as to be visually unobtrusive. B. Antennas mounted on structures or on architectural details of a building shall be treated to match existing architectural features and colors found on the building. Façade-mounted antennas shall be integrated into the building's architecture through design, color,and texture. C. Roof-mounted antennas shall be located in an area of the roof where the visual impact is minimized. Roof-mounted and ground-mounted antennas shall not be allowed when they are placed in direct line of sight of significant or sensitive view corridors or where they adversely affect scenic vistas,unless facilities incorporate appropriate,creative stealth techniques to camouflage, disguise, and/or blend them into the surrounding environment, as determined by the zoning administrator. D. Aboveground and partially buried equipment cabinets shall be located where they will be the least visible from surrounding properties and public places.Aboveground and partially buried equipment cabinets shall require screening from surrounding properties and public view. Any visible portion of an equipment cabinet shall be treated to be architecturally compatible with surrounding structures and/or screened using appropriate techniques to camouflage, disguise,and/or blend it into the environment. If the zoning administrator determines that an equipment cabinet is not or cannot be adequately screened from adjacent properties or from public view or architecturally treated to 7