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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 112 of 156 1 Ben Levitan: I’m just saying Wi-Fi to make it simpler to understand. It’s called un-licensed LTE. 2 3 Samantha Cabe: But is it currently in use? 4 5 Ben Levitan: Yes, it is. 6 7 Samantha Cabe: Ok. 8 9 Ben Levitan: Obviously not in UNC. You probably wouldn’t know. You wouldn’t know. You’d just 10 look at your bill and be like, “I’m over my data plan again”. 11 12 Samantha Cabe: And, oh… How much longer do you anticipate with this witness? There’s… 13 14 David Barnes: We’ve got members that have been here for the whole thing. We’d like to make 15 some brief statements. 16 17 John Price: Yeah, why don’t you go ahead? 18 19 Samantha Cabe: Do you want to finish with this witness and then… how much longer do you 20 have? 21 22 Ben Levitan: I’m happy to stand aside and let them go. 23 24 John Price: Not very long, but I’ll… 25 26 David Barnes: Inaudible. 27 28 Samantha Cabe: Ok. That’s all you had to say. Alright. Thank you for deferring to them. 29 30 David Barnes: My name is David Barnes. I was sworn in. I live at 1725 Mount Carmel Church 31 Road. I am within, probably, 400-yards of the cell tower site. It is directly in my vision. I go out my 32 back door, my garage door, look to the left, and it would be sticking me in the eye. Now, I know 33 some of the Buckner family members, I hope they make a million dollars already. I also 34 understand there’s a high probability that in the next few years there is going to be logging in that 35 area. There needs to be logging time port, in terms of the life of the plants. But that means I will 36 have nothing in between me and the tower. Other than this 40-foot buffer, which is going to be a 37 zero buffer as far as I’m concerned. I have not heard this gentleman’s ideas about these other 38 towers or… I was wondering too, why does it need to be 200-feet? Is there other technology, 39 asked you guys to look into potential other technologies? Because this will be a visual ugliness of 40 200-foot tower for my house. And I cannot sit here and argue about whether my home values are 41 going to go up or down, I can’t argue that. But it will be an ugly factor. And yes, there needs to be 42 improvement. I don’t even own a cell phone but trust me… My wife, my kids, and everybody that 43 ever comes to my house will sit there and complain about it. So something needs to be done in 44 that Mount Carmel, but I am very, very close to this tower. Another thing I would ask you, I know 45 the applicant is a cell phone company. But I was wondering, is it appropriate for you guys to ask 46 the land owners of this property whether they can connect to maybe a larger buffer, or whatever? 47 And my other concern is the new road and access that is not even coming from the Buckner 48 property. It’s coming from a Buckner family member in an adjacent property. One that’s directly 49 114