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DRAFT OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 4 of 156 1 Laura Goode: Good evening. My name is Laura Goode. I’m with Baker Donaldson. My business 2 address is 1501 Main Street Suite 600, Columbia, South Carolina. However, I live and work in 3 Raleigh, North Carolina. Baker Donaldson represents telecom and their application for a SUP for 4 a new wireless telecommunitcations tower. Micahel has done a great job of explaining to you our 5 overall plan for the proposed tower. This is a copy of the overall site plan that was included in your 6 packets. This shows the general location of the facility in relation to the subject property and Mt. 7 Carmel Church Road. The property owner is the Butner Family Farm Trust, however a portion of 8 the access road will be going over in adjacent property owned by the Williams’. Both of these 9 properties are zoned rural buffer. Additionally, the type of monopole telecommunication tower that 10 is being proposed is permitted as a Class B Special Use in the rural buffer district. This is to give 11 you another aerial view, giving you an idea of where the proposed center of the tower will be 12 located on the property. At this time I’m going to talk to you about the network objective for the 13 need for the proposed tower. And before I get into that, a couple of things: First, you’l see that 14 Verizon’s logo is on this side. That’s because Verizon Wireless will be the anchor tenant and will 15 immediately co-locate on the tower as soon as it’s constructed by Towercom. Therefore, 16 Towercom is going to build this tower to meet the network objective of Verizon Wireless. Also, I 17 wanted to point out to you, as I’m sure that your attorney has advised you, that North Carolina law 18 does not require the applicant to provide a need or justification for the tower and does not require 19 the applicant to provide any propreitary or confidential business information. However, in an effort 20 to be as transparent as possible and to explain why it is that we’re asking for this permit we have 21 provided some information about the network objective for this tower. And the main purpose for 22 this tower is that there is a significant gap in coverage along Mt. Carmel Church Road, in between 23 the Governers’ Club area to the South and the UNC main campus to the North. So this towers’ 24 primary purpose is to fill a large portion of that signifcant gap in coverage along that road. Another 25 purpose of the tower is to provide a capacity offload for surrounding sites that are already in 26 existence. If you see this map up here, the red circle is there; those are existing Verizion Wireless 27 sites already serving the area. The main focus of the capacity offload is to use the campus site, 28 which is up at the top of the map. It’s the second one from the left. So it’s a double use to provide 29 that increase coverage as well as to provide capactity offload. And what that means is the 30 demand for wireless service in that area is exceeding the capacity of the existing sites to handle 31 that traffic. What that means in real world terms is that you’re dropping calls in that area, not able 32 to send and receive text messages in that area, and you’re not able to browse the internet at 33 optimal speeds in that area. So the second map you see here; the prior one was what the 34 coverage and capacity looked like without the proposed Clearwater Lake site. The second map 35 shows what the coverage will look like if this Board grants the SUP for this propsed tower. And to 36 bring down what this means, the red and green is really really good service. That means that 37 inside a building just like this one you should be able to use your wireless device to make calls 38 and surf the internet. Blue areas is not such great coverage and capacity. That means that you’re 39 really only going to be able to use your cell phone when you’re in your car or outdoors. And if you 40 get down to the gray or white areas, that’s where it’s very hit or miss and you may not be able to 41 make a phone call or use the internet on your wireless device. So red and green is what we’re 42 shooting for and this second map shows how the proposed tower will fill a significant portion of 43 that significant gap in coverage, and provide that additional needed capacity. Now based on this 44 network objective, this is the search area map that was determined. Which means this is the area, 45 the red circle, in which a new wireless facility is needed in order to meet that network objective 46 that I just discussed with you. So we needed to find a place within this search area to locate the 47 facility. Now the first thing that we do when we’re looking in a search area is we look for 48 opportunities to co-locate. That’s required by this ordinacne but it’s also a best business practice 49 for Verizon Wireless because it is much faster to co-locate on an existing tower or inaudible than 50 6