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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 117 of 156 <br /> <br />Ben Levitan: I did a search of cell towers within 5-miles of this cell tower, I found about 14 existing 1 <br />structures. Like I said, a cell tower can go out 22-miles and you can focus it. So I don’t see why 2 <br />you couldn’t co-locate on any of those existing towers. Why does it have to be a new tower built in 3 <br />this location? 4 <br /> 5 <br />Michael Harvey: I think just for clarification purposes the engineer can’t quote a section of the 6 <br />Unified Development Ordinance requiring a 5-mile search ring. The Unified Development 7 <br />Ordinance requires a 2-mile search ring. 8 <br /> 9 <br />John Price: I think… 10 <br /> 11 <br />Michael Harvey: So I think we need to stick with the facts of the Unified Development Ordinance 12 <br />under which this application’s being reviewed. 13 <br /> 14 <br />John Price: I think he misunderstood. 15 <br /> 16 <br />Ben Levitan: I ……… 17 <br /> 18 <br />Samantha Cabe: I just wanted to make sure… we can move on, I just felt like you were making 19 <br />statements about what was and wasn’t there without actually looking at it or knowing what the 20 <br />search ring was. 21 <br /> 22 <br />John Price: As I understand your testimony Mr. Levitan is that the tower being proposed within 23 <br />that search ring will not satisfy the needs identified, is that correct? 24 <br /> 25 <br />Ben Levitan: It still doesn’t identify… yeah. If you put the cell tower here, with this technology, it’s 26 <br />not going to solve the problem. Period. 27 <br /> 28 <br />John Price: Let me restate my question. This search ring TowerCom identified as the search ring, 29 <br />the area of where a wireless support structure must be located to meet their service needs. 30 <br /> 31 <br />Ben Levitan: It’s not going to meet their service needs. 32 <br /> 33 <br />John Price: But what would be the appropriate search ring on a search rings in order to satisfy the 34 <br />needs that they’ve identified? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Ben Levitan: Well it looks like up and down Mount Carmel Road is where you need to… 37 <br /> 38 <br />John Price: Well that is within that search ring exactly. 39 <br /> 40 <br />Ben Levitan: Yeah. 41 <br /> 42 <br />John Price: How about the UNC Campus? 43 <br /> 44 <br />Ben Levitan: The search ring has to be around UNC if you’re trying to find a place to provide 45 <br />coverage for UNC. That’s stands to reason. Ideally, you’d want to be in the middle of UNC. I 46 <br />would put a point right at the place where you’re using the most, put a circle around that, it’s going 47 <br />to end up inside the UNC Campus. Why would you come from outside the UNC Campus to cover 48 <br />inside the UNC Campus? 49 <br /> 50 <br />119