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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 59 of 156 <br /> <br />Owen Gwen: The topography is up and down, they’ve talked about between the Mellot site and 1 <br />this particular subject property. The 200-foot obstuction is my house, which is built on top of 2 <br />what’s called High Hill, which is a northern part of Edward’s Mountain, which is the northern 3 <br />remedy inaudble forest, which many geologists think is one of the oldest geological features in 4 <br />North America. 5 <br /> 6 <br />John Price: Is this the first time that there’s been a proposal for constrcution of a cell tower in the 7 <br />area where you reside? 8 <br /> 9 <br />Owen Gwen: No, we had one 17 years ago proposed on Clearwater Lake Road. 10 <br /> 11 <br />John Price: Did you object to that? 12 <br /> 13 <br />Owen Gwen: I objected for the same reason on this one. The impact of property values, the view 14 <br />shed destruction, I could talk about that all day but I know we’re short on time, and I appreciate 15 <br />everyone’s time here. 16 <br /> 17 <br />John Price: Was that application for permit granted? 18 <br /> 19 <br />Owen Gwen: No. 20 <br /> 21 <br />Laura Goode: I object to the relevance of that as to the findings of fact that the Board needs to 22 <br />make whether another tower was approved or denied. 23 <br /> 24 <br />John Price: Have you ever considered developing the Dove Field Property? 25 <br /> 26 <br />Owen Gwen: Just low density residential and once we found out the reservoir …. the impact was 27 <br />too great for the resevoir. When I mean low density we had a track of land that was 90 plus acres, 28 <br />1 at about 40 acres, that ……. certainly nothing less than 10 acres in area. 29 <br /> 30 <br />John Price: Did you ever gauge anyone to prepare a master plan? 31 <br /> 32 <br />Owen Gwen: I did. Randall Arndt whose is a national recognized rural planner for open space 33 <br />development, we hired him. He came out and did a study on the sites …. possible sites for 34 <br />proposed homes and we had a professional go out and do the perk testing to see if the sites 35 <br />would conform to Randall’s location of the homes. The total for the 220 was about 12 sites. 36 <br /> 37 <br />John Price: When was that done? 38 <br /> 39 <br />61