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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 118 of 156 Matt Hughes: Maybe I’m a layman but I’m willing to look at being devils advocate here. 1 2 Ben Levitan: That’s ok, yeah. 3 4 Matt Hughes: Maybe, I mean, I could conceivably see how it could help the capacity at UNC 5 because let’s say there’s folks who live in this area where they’d like to put this cell tower and 6 they’re getting service in some way shape or form from the tower that’s at UNC and if they had 7 one closer to them then that could help UNC, and if they had one closer to them then that could 8 help where the tower is. I mean, is that an incorrect assumption on my part? 9 10 Ben Levitan: No, no, I see what you’re saying. And you are technically right. You see where the 11 big red blotches are on this? 12 13 Matt Hughes: Mm-Hmm. 14 15 Ben Levitan: The big is the center of every… that’s the strongest signal. UNC is at the top of this 16 graph. If you want to cover UNC why be 5-miles away? I mean, if you’re going to use a cell tower 17 that’s 5-miles away I’ve identified 14 other cell towers that you could use that are existing. So the 18 search ring to provide additional coverage at UNC has to be within UNC. 19 20 Samantha Cabe: I… Well, I’m not going to go down that path. 21 22 Ben Levitan: I mean, you can ask me anything you want. 23 24 Samantha Cabe: Yeah, can you hand that back? I believe they’re stated objected was not to 25 provide more coverage for UNC because we can see that it is coverage but rather to offload some 26 of their coverage onto a different cell tower so that they can provide better service there. 27 28 Ben Levitan: Offload is done and you know… 29 30 Samantha Cabe: It just means that people who would live closer to this particular tower that 31 they’re wanting to place there would use that tower instead of the UNC tower, freeing up stuff 32 there. Right? 33 34 Ben Levitan: It’s not the way you design it. When you have… You identify where your high-density 35 is, like for example UNC, high-density is going to be the stadiums on any given Saturday, right? 36 That’s when the biggest density is. I’ll bet you there’s a number of what we call DAS. 37 38 Samantha Cabe: I understand what you’re saying. 39 40 Ben Levitan: You know what I’m saying. And what you do is you look for where your worse 41 problem is and that’s where you put the fix. You don’t put the fix 5-miles away. 42 43 John Price: There was also testimony by TowerCom that… 44 45 Samantha Cabe: Hey, hold on one second, Mr. Harvey… 46 47 Michael Harvey: No, I thought Mr. Price was finished. I apologize. 48 49 Samantha Cabe: Ok. 50 120