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Approved 3113117 1 Michael Harvey: In my humble opinion, potentially yes. I will also tell you as I have told you before, 2 admitting other iterations from any other meetings the Board needs to ask the questions it feels 3 are necessary and vital in order to make an informed decision regardless if it's of Mr. Price or the 4 applicant. We are here to provide you with as much feedback as what state and law and Unified 5 Development Ordinance requires. 6 7 Barry Katz: But is it pertinent to... 8 9 Michael Harvey: I believe that some of the information that you are potentially looking for, I don't 10 want to read your mind or put words in your mouth could potentially be viable to the discussion, 11 yes. And I certainly don't want to deny this good an opportunity to get those questions answered 12 for you. 13 14 Barry Katz: Please, if you have a response... 15 16 Laura Goode: Can I just ask what the specific question, because I want to... if you just have a 17 specific question I can call him up right here to answer that question. 18 19 Barry Katz: Ok, it had to deal with whether there was alternative technologies, and then we had a 20 suggestion of these small towers along, let's say, Mount Carmel Church Road as a very 21 productive potential option. So if you wouldn't mind addressing that. 22 23 David Haughney: Hello, I'm David Haughney. I was sworn in the last time. I work for Verizon. And 24 my work address is 3020 Hammond Road, in Raleigh. And then the question... Do you want to 25 restate or be specific about? 26 27 Barry Katz: My question had to do with whether there were alternatives to building a 199 -foot 28 tower to achieve the goals that Verizon had. And Mr. Levitan had suggested that there might be 29 small towers along Mount Carmel Church Road that would, in fact, achieve a greater coverage, 30 etcetera. So what is your opinion? 31 32 David Haughney: The design that we propose is the optimal and feasible, and commercially 33 practical solution for this very large, weak coverage area. There is approximately 4 -miles between 34 sites in this area, and the sites that are surrounding it that have been mentioned, we're on most of 35 them. There's none in this search ring, or at the epicenter of this 4 -mile coverage hole. Verizon 36 Wireless uses, we are the leader in the advancement of wireless technology as they stated many 37 times, and we used micro cells and small cells and DAS where they're appropriate. We are using 38 them to solve our capacity issues at UNC Campus. They're part of the solution. This is also an 39 enterable part of the solution, is to design this tower as it's been proposed in this area to provide 40 seamless coverage in capacity of, not only, Mount Carmel Church Road but the entire 41 surrounding area. And it would be completely infeasible and impractical to try and solve that large 42 cover gap with an innumerable amount of small cells at very low height that only covers as far as 43 you see. If we put a transmitting device on a 30 -foot pole on Mount Carmel Road it would only 44 cover as far as you see it. And this terrain, with the foliage, and the hills, they minute you turn off 45 the road you would drop. So this entire 4 -mile square area we'd be talking about... It's not 46 practical, not feasible, no other commercial company as proposed such a thing. 47 48 Karen Barrows: Can I ask you David, so the opponents are saying there's still a large area of 49 Mount Carmel that is not going to get ideal service. So you're saying they will? 50 OC Board of Adjustment — 12/12/16 Page 125 of 156