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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 127 of 156 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Barry Katz: How much of Mount Carmel Church Road is in the rural buffer that we’re talking about 2 <br />as far as providing cell service with this tower? Can you make a statement about that? 3 <br /> 4 <br />Michael Harvey: I don’t know if I can make a statement of that. What I’ll remind the Board is that 5 <br />there’s a portion of Mount Carmel Church Road located within the extra-territorial jurisdiction 6 <br />boundary of the Town of Chapel Hill going up to Old Lystra. 7 <br /> 8 <br />Barry Katz: Old Lystra? 9 <br /> 10 <br />Michael Harvey: And then you have approximately three, three and a half, or four miles or so, 11 <br />three miles going towards the Chatham County line that is obviously all rural buffer. 12 <br /> 13 <br />Barry Katz: It’s all rural buffer? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Michael Harvey: Yes sir. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Barry Katz: My point was to consider whether or not there would be an increase in residential 18 <br />density in that area that would be justified as one thing or another but there is not, as long as the 19 <br />buffer exists. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Michael Harvey: I can only answer that question based on the Ordinance, as it currently exists. 22 <br />Density in this portion of the rural buffer is essentially one dwelling unit for every 2-acres of 23 <br />property per the current Orange County Unified Development Ordinance and the joint planning 24 <br />land use plan and joint planning land use plan agreement adopted and enforced by the Towns of 25 <br />Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Orange County in a cooperative venture. 26 <br /> 27 <br />John Price: I have just a couple of questions for Mr. Haughney. Mr. Haughney, am I 28 <br />understanding you correctly that you’re not saying that small cell towers along Mount Carmel 29 <br />Road would not solve every problem along Mount Carmel Road? I’m not talking about small cells 30 <br />now. I’m talking about small cell towers along Mount Carmel Road. Would that provide all of the 31 <br />coverage necessary? 32 <br /> 33 <br />David Haughney: No, it would not. 34 <br /> 35 <br />John Price: Along Mount Carmel Road, not the offload capacity of UNC, I’m just talking about 36 <br />Mount Carmel Road. 37 <br /> 38 <br />David Haughney: No sir, it would not meet our objectives and goals of standards. 39 <br /> 40 <br />John Price: Along Mount Carmel Road? 41 <br /> 42 <br />David Haughney: No sir. It’s not a practical, feasible solution that we would pursue. 43 <br /> 44 <br />John Price: And you’re saying that this 199-foot monopole tower, where you proposed to build it, 45 <br />is going to… and that’s the only way to solve your offload capacity at UNC Campus and in 46 <br />between, is that correct? 47 <br /> 48 <br />129