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And I have another question for the applicant, and I am not sure who should answer this. But, the design of the fence being, having being chain link and having barbed wire or razor wire on the top of it; is that at your initiative, or is that what is required by the County ordinance? Michael Wallace: It is required by the ordinance to have an 8 foot fence, which is what we are proposing. There is no barbed wire or razor wire on our proposal or on the site plan. Commissioner porosin: That is all I have for right now. Commissioner Pelissier: I have a couple of additional questions. On the site view, I still don't understand, and I'd like it explained. So, before trees can grow, given the slope of the land, what will people see? How much above whatever bushes and the fence? What will they actually see, and how much above will the solar panels show? And related to that is, could you address the issue of glare? If people are going to see the panels - and I understand I guess that some of the panels can have materials there to prevent glare. So could you address those two things? I guess that's probably for Mr. Wallace, or. Michael Fox: Correct, and I'll give an introduction and then get Mr. Wallace and then Mr. Cleveland up here. To some degree, and I'm gonna ask Mr. Wallace to come up and tell you to the best of his knowledge, but to some degree what you see will depend on where you are and — and how far back you are. So, for a particular piece of property it might not be the same. With that, I'll let Mr. Wallace talk about the landscaping buffer, and in general the topography of the site. And then Mr. Cleveland can talk about the glare issue. Commissioner Pelissier: And let me just clarify; I guess my question is really related to the folks who testified and said they live right near and just sort of downhill and their concern about the view going uphill. So, I realize that it's going to be different from a lot of different properties, but- Michael Fox: Thank you, that's helpful to understand which one you're asking about. Commissioner Pelissier: Sure, I should have said that initially. Thank you for prompting me. Mike Wallace: Yes ma'am you are correct that the site does slope from roughly at 470 at the bottom. It goes to 500 feet in the top right hand corner. So, it is the intent of that buffer to shade completely so that they can't see it. As Mr. Fox stated, it will depend on where you are. It will depend on the age of the trees, the growth pattern of those trees for that site to happen, but it is the full intent of our plan to shade that so that you cannot see into the solar panel. Commissioner Pelissier: But if you don't mind, I guess I don't' feel like my question is answered. It's like, what are you going to see initially, before any trees grow I guess is what I want to know? Like from some of those adjacent properties. Mike Wallace: Right, right. The - To comply with the ordinance is the reason that we use the 8 foot trees for upper canopy, lower canopy and then the shrubs. So, I can't tell you, again, unless I'm standing at a particular point on the property, or somebody's concern on what exactly they are going to see. But, that is in there to shade them from being able to see. So, it depends on where I would be standing to be able to answer that question, or at what point in the field they may be looking at.