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Approved 3113117 <br />1 Owen Gwen: The topography is up and down, they've talked about between the Mellot site and <br />2 this particular subject property. The 200 -foot obstuction is my house, which is built on top of <br />3 what's called High Hill, which is a northern part of Edward's Mountain, which is the northern <br />4 remedy inaudble forest, which many geologists think is one of the oldest geological features in <br />5 North America. <br />6 <br />7 John Price: Is this the first time that there's been a proposal for constrcution of a cell tower in the <br />8 area where you reside? <br />9 <br />10 Owen Gwen: No, we had one 17 years ago proposed on Clearwater Lake Road. <br />11 <br />12 John Price: Did you object to that? <br />13 <br />14 Owen Gwen: I objected for the same reason on this one. The impact of property values, the view <br />15 shed destruction, I could talk about that all day but I know we're short on time, and I appreciate <br />16 everyone's time here. <br />17 <br />18 John Price: Was that application for permit granted? <br />19 <br />20 Owen Gwen: No. <br />21 <br />22 Laura Goode: I object to the relevance of that as to the findings of fact that the Board needs to <br />23 make whether another tower was approved or denied. <br />24 <br />25 John Price: Have you ever considered developing the Dove Field Property? <br />26 <br />27 Owen Gwen: Just low density residential and once we found out the reservoir .... the impact was <br />28 too great for the resevoir. When I mean low density we had a track of land that was 90 plus acres, <br />29 1 at about 40 acres, that ....... certainly, nothing less than 10 acres in area. <br />30 <br />31 John Price: Did you ever gauge anyone to prepare a master plan? <br />32 <br />33 Owen Gwen: I did. Randall Arndt whose is a national recognized rural planner for open space <br />34 development, we hired him. He came out and did a study on the sites .... possible sites for <br />35 proposed homes and we had a professional go out and do the perk testing to see if the sites <br />36 would conform to Randall's location of the homes. The total for the 220 was about 12 sites. <br />37 <br />38 John Price: When was that done? <br />39 <br />OC Board of Adjustment — 12/12/16 Page 59 of 156 <br />