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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 63 of 156 <br /> <br />Owen Gwen: The driveway is as close as you can get. Not even a setback. It’s interesting that you 1 <br />say that because I’ve been trying to acquire property adjacent to this to recombine this property 2 <br />and when I purchased some property from Mr. Williams earlier when they gave me the approval 3 <br />the County has setbacks. I don’t see any setbacks on their Verizon map, maybe they’re there but 4 <br />the point is the road is adjacent to our property. It’s just another factor. I’m not as disturbed about 5 <br />a road as I am about a tower. 6 <br /> 7 <br />Laura Goode: I just have one follow up question. You don’t reside on the Dove Field property 8 <br />adjacent to the Butner Family Farm Trust property, do you? 9 <br /> 10 <br />Owen Gwen: I own everything from that little pin to the end of that yellow line. 11 <br /> 12 <br />Laura Goode: But you don’t reside on the property adjacent to the Butner Family Farm Trust 13 <br />property? 14 <br /> 15 <br />Owen Gwen: It’s all adjacent. I’m not sure what the point is… If I want to go out and put a tent up 16 <br />then I could say I reside there. I mean… It’s a distance. What you don’t see from this photgraph 17 <br />os the fact that that’s a hill. That house is on a hill. It’s called High Hill. So I look over it. 18 <br /> 19 <br />John Price: I now have a couple of questions. What is the elevation of the High Hill property? 20 <br /> 21 <br />Owen Gwen: It’s about 560 feet about sea level. It’s about the same as Chapel Hill. 22 <br /> 23 <br />John Price: Does it look down on the location of where this cell tower would be built? 24 <br /> 25 <br />Owen Gwen: It does. Amazingly enough I can see the light tower at the Raleigh/Durham airport 26 <br />from my yard. You can see a long way. 27 <br /> 28 <br />John Price: Can you see any sky lines from your property? 29 <br /> 30 <br />Owen Gwen: Oh sure. I can see to Raleigh. But I don’t see a cell tower right there adjacent to my 31 <br />property. 32 <br /> 33 <br />John Price: If the cell tower is built will you see that as part of the skyline? 34 <br /> 35 <br />Owen Gwen: Well, from different places I probably would. If I decided to do a few things then it 36 <br />would be. One of my biggest concerns is the view from the lakes. You can see it from the lakes. 37 <br />That’s where you go for serenity. 38 <br /> 39 <br />65