County governments are continuing to encourage the deployment...

County governments are continuing to encourage the deployment of wireless facilities and are committed to developing best practices, said NATOA Executive Director Stephen Traylor and representatives for local governments Friday during a meeting with Renee Gregory, wireless aide to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Joe Briggs, a commissioner in Cascade County, Montana, said the county created a land use study map with the Department of Defense’s Malmstom Air Force Base outlining areas for the construction of wireless facilities and other development, the National Association of Counties (NAC) said in an ex parte posted Wednesday. Such maps “could be the type of information included in a best practices manual,” NAC said in docket 13-238. NAC also discussed the possibility of hosting or contributing to an FCC workshop after the FCC develops rules on wireless facilities siting (http://bit.ly/1wEwDFj).