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69 <br /> 1 Tommy Cleveland: And that is included in the Sandia model, so you can consider exactly the <br /> 2 tilt of the panels. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Pete Hallenbeck: Is that something you can get for us? <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Tommy Cleveland: Yes. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 Pete Hallenbeck: That would be great. Thank you. Yes, Michael. <br /> 9 <br /> 10 Michael Harvey: Just a point of clarification. There is obviously some potential with this to be <br /> 11 delayed till the September quarterly public hearing. If that is the motion, this will not go to your <br /> 12 June planning board meeting. It will go to the September quarterly public hearing. <br /> 13 <br /> 14 Pete Hallenbeck: Is the height of the inverters less than 6 feet? Is it less than the height of the <br /> 15 panel, or will the structures with the inverters be taller than the panels? <br /> 16 <br /> 17 Mike Wallace: Yeah, I'm going to have to get that to you. I think it's a 6 foot inverter, but I don't <br /> 18 want to state that clearly until I look at the drawing from the manufacturer. <br /> 19 <br /> 20 Pete Hallenbeck: Ok, that would be great to clarify. And then, Commissioner Jacobs asked <br /> 21 about getting a, the big picture of both the solar farm area and the surrounding houses, and I <br /> 22 would add to that; it would be great if we had a topo map and elevation for that. Because it <br /> 23 seems to me that a lot of assessing the visual impact and just how high the trees have to go is <br /> 24 going to come down to figuring out how much that panel is going to go up, how much it is going <br /> 25 to go down in relation to the houses, and the only thing in this report just shows the topo map for <br /> 26 around the field, so it's hard to make that assessment. <br /> 27 <br /> 28 And finally, I'll just echo Commissioner McKee's concern. I wish I had the luxury at my <br /> 29 house of being able to just declare that I would mow every certain amount of time, but you tend <br /> 30 to mow when the grass gets tall. So, I wondered if there is some way in the application to say, if <br /> 31 it's taller than this much, it gets mowed. Food for thought. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 Mike Wallace: Yeah, again, it just was an evaluation based off the site on what we needed. <br /> 34 So, if we notice that that needed to be done more than once a month, once every couple of <br /> 35 months, we would do that. <br /> 36 <br /> 37 Chair Jacobs: Mr. Chairman, may I? We are going to have to leave the building by 12. I <br /> 38 would suggest that we entertain comment from people who signed up to speak till quarter of 12, <br /> 39 and then the Board will decide. The Board of Commissioners can decide whether or not to <br /> 40 continue the public hearing or refer this to the planning board. And hopefully we can do that in <br /> 41 enough time to leave the building in 15 minutes. <br /> 42 <br /> 43 Pete Hallenbeck: That sounds good to me. Those were all my questions. Did the other <br /> 44 planning board members have any questions? <br /> 45 <br /> 46 Lisa Stuckey: I have two quick questions. Lisa Stuckey, planning board member. But I wasn't <br /> 47 sworn, but I think I'm not required, right? Okay. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 I shared Bernadette's question. If you have like a 30 to 35 foot rise, I wonder if a <br /> 50 landscape architect or landscape engineer might be more helpful in determining the size of <br />