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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 109 of 156 stealth. The other thing is when you put up smaller cell towers that are below the tree line you’re 1 going to get better coverage. Just remember cell tower… a cell phone works best when you’ve got 2 line of sight from the phone right to the cell tower. When you’ve got 191-foot cell tower and then 3 you’ve got all this foliage growing in the summer below it, it actually interferes with the signal. 4 Especially after heavy rain and you’ve got these trees full of water that are between your phone 5 sitting in the passenger seat and that cell tower. So the design you want is smaller cells, that are 6 not circular patterns, they’re strip patterns, they’re focused up and down on the road, and they’re 7 below the tree line. 8 9 John Price: Also in that same letter in Exhibit 4 Mr. Haughney states, “There are evolving 10 morphological applications that include micro cell, small cell, and DAS but those technologies are 11 not appropriate for large covering area situations… 12 13 Samantha Cabe: What are you reading from? 14 15 John Price: Mr. Haughney’s August 11, 2016 letter to Mr. Harvey. Exhibit 4 of the application of 16 TowerCom. 17 18 Samantha Cabe: Oh, ok. 19 20 John Price: “Or we’ve a feasible number of installations that make it impossible to provide 21 seamless high quality service over a large geographic area, such as Clearwater Lake area.” 22 23 Ben Levitan: I disagree again. And I think I’ve laid that out. On top of that, these are not evolving 24 technologies. These are technology that Verizon, themselves, is using today… I’ll give you one 25 example, San Antonio, Texas, which is probably relatively the same size as we are. And last year 26 Verizon signed with an agreement with San Antonio to install these small cells on lampposts, 27 utility poles, buildings, all over San Antonio and their stated goal is to have a better visual impact, 28 basically, to be less intrusive and they signed that agreement with the City of San Antonio so that 29 they will pay $1,500 a small cell for the next 25-years. Verizon just signed this, has been doing 30 this for a year in San Antonio… 31 32 Laura Goode: At this point in time I’m going to object to this line of testimony, in terms of it just 33 being discussions about facts not in evidence. There has not been any of this factual... talking 34 about their small cell plans in other cities, and what contracts they have signed has not been 35 provided to us, it’s not been provided to the Board. 36 37 Ben Levitan: Alright, well I’m just saying the letter implies that this is kind of voodoo or paper wear 38 technology. It’s absolutely incorrect. On top of that, Verizon and Telecom are working on 39 advanced small cell, the next generation small cell. They’ve got special permission from the FCC 40 to test that in three cities. Oklahoma City, Cary, and Raleigh. So clearly, this is an appropriate 41 technology to use… this is one of the best alternatives you could use. This 191-foot cell tower is 42 basically, I hate to say it, obsolete technology, or obsoleting technology. We’re moving away from 43 this, Verizon’s moving away from this. 44 45 John Price: In your opinion, are there existing facilities or alternative existing structures of 46 sufficient height within the Clearwater Lake area that could be used for co-location to provide the 47 proposed telecommunications service needs using available technologies without building a new 48 cell tower? 49 50 111