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1966 Section 106 review has been completed; (7) A report indicating whether the facility could be co -located elsewhere, which shall include: (A) Documentation of efforts to install, construct, or co -locate the proposed facility on or within: (i) Existing towers or feasible antenna support structures, (ii) Sites that do not adversely impact significant public views, such as beaches, shorelines, oceans, and natural areas; (iii) Industrial or commercial zoning districts; (iv) Locations that are not highly visible from adjacent roadways, public spaces, parks, schools, greenbelts, or other visually sensitive areas; and (v) Areas unserved or underserved with respect to broadband access and infrastructure; (B) A map showing the sites that have been investigated with a detailed analysis on how those sites are inadequate and how the site selected is the least obtrusive, (C) Maps showing the coverage areas of existing towers within a two mile radius of the proposed tower; (D) A letter from the nearby tower owners indicating the tower is not feasible for co -locating antennas, (E) A statement that the wireless telecommunications provider commits to allow a minimum of two other wireless telecommunications providers to co -locate antennas on its proposed tower facilities wherever structurally and technically feasible; and (F) A statement providing the reason for the location, design, and height of the proposed tower or antennas; (8) Documentation of proactive efforts made to notify, meet with, inform, and engage adjacent landowners and the affected community regarding the proposed use; (9) Verification that the applicant has sent notification letters to all owners and lessees of record of properties of which any portion is within five hundred feet of any point along the perimeter boundary of the building site for the proposed telecommunication installation; provided that the notification letters must: (A) Describe the nature of the proposed installation, including its dimensions and location on the building site; and (B) Provide the anticipated timeline for construction, (10) Documentation demonstrating compliance with the Hawaii State Fire Code and Standard No. 76, relating to the fire protection of telecommunications facilities, of the National Fire Protection Association, which documentation must be submitted to the Hawaii fire department, (11) A maintenance plan detailing how the safety, functionality, and service of the proposed use will be maintained until the use is discontinued; and (12) A visual impact analysis, which shall include: (A) Mitigation measures to minimize the visual impacts of the tower, including a description of any vegetation to be used for such purposes;