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