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DRAFT <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 11/9/15 Page 68 of 156 <br /> <br />Evan Gwen: Yes. 1 <br /> 2 <br />John Price: Did you have any difficulty finding the balloon initially? 3 <br /> 4 <br />Evan Gwen: We did. 5 <br /> 6 <br />John Price: If we could go back to the beginning photo on the power point? There are a number of 7 <br />photos that were taken of this nature. Who took the photos? 8 <br /> 9 <br />Evan Gwen: My wife and I took these photos. 10 <br /> 11 <br />John Price: And were you present when the photograph was taken? 12 <br /> 13 <br />Evan Gwen: I was. 14 <br /> 15 <br />John Price: Would you describe what that shows? 16 <br /> 17 <br />Evan Gwen: I will. This and the next six photos from various angles show that the balloon test was 18 <br />a misrepresentation of the height of the balloon as it was snagged at multiple locations in the pine 19 <br />trees. We were standing at the very base where the string was tied, saw the string hit a pine 20 <br />branch and then horizontally, if not downward, for what I paced out to be an estimation of 100 feet 21 <br />before it hit another snag and went straight up into the very low winds that day. So I do not 22 <br />attribute personally the wind being a factor but the visbile snags in the trees holding that line 23 <br />down, my guess around 100-feet. 24 <br /> 25 <br />John Price: Would you go to the next slide, please? And would you describe what this is? 26 <br /> 27 <br />Evan Gwen: It’s a different angle of the balloon line. The arrow on the left and then the oliptical 28 <br />red shape is showing that line in a snag and then how far away the actual balloon is that you can 29 <br />see through the trees inside the red circle the red balloon. 30 <br /> 31 <br />John Price: Next slide please. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Evan Gwen: Similar situation. The balloon line is running horizontally to the ground in that oliptical 34 <br />shape to misrepresent the height of the proposed tower. 35 <br /> 36 <br />John Price: Next slide please. What does this show? 37 <br /> 38 <br />70