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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 38 of 156 1 Laura Goode: Did you evaluate Mellot candidate for whether it would meet the network objective 2 for Verizon Wireless with this site? 3 4 David Haughney: Yes, absolutely, I did. 5 6 Laura Goode: And I’m showing you what was introduced as Exhibit 11 to the application. Did you 7 create Exhibit 11, the Mellot candidate analysis? 8 9 David Haughney: Yes. 10 11 Laura Goode: Ok. And is this a true and accurate copy of what you created? 12 13 David Haughney: Yes it is. 14 15 Laura Goode: Ok. Can you explain the analysis you did for the Mellot candidate? As to whether it 16 would meet the network objective for Verizon? 17 18 David Haughney: Yes, absolutely. One of the primary objectives as stated is to improve that dead 19 zone on Mt. Carmel Church Road between about the Orange County line and North towards 15-20 501 it goes into Chapel Hill. That whole road is a dead zone. You’re either going to have no 21 service or very poor, and unreliable service. And that being the primary objective, filling in the 22 coverage hole, in my analysis of Mellot candidate I was not seeing any coverage get over there 23 when I ran it through my prediction inaudible and I had digged deeper into the reasons why; why 24 do we have a simulated a 200-foot structure at this location and it’s not reaching distance away to 25 the road that it should and identify the terrain of structure. There’s basically a 200-foot terrain 26 increase a short distance away from the proposed location and the location sits at the bottom of a 27 200-foot hill and we’re only proposed a 200-foot tower. So these radio signals we’re using do not 28 penetrate through earth. In addition to the 200-foot terrain obstruction there’s another 100-foot of 29 dense foliage, average height. And the radio signals we’re using don’t penetrate through dense 30 foliage very well either. So an optimal location has to take in consideration of the terrain in the 31 area to meet the objective. And this did not. Because of that obstructure. It will not reach Mt. 32 Carmel Church Road. 33 34 Laura Goode: Now turning to the proposed Clearwater Lake site; were there any alternatives 35 technologies available that would provide the needed increase coverage in capacity offload in the 36 Clearwater Lake area without the proposed 195 foot tower? 37 38 David Haughney: No, this is a very optimal design for this area. 39 40 40