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Approved 3113117 <br />1 Evan Gwen: Yes. <br />2 <br />3 John Price: Did you have any difficulty finding the balloon initially? <br />4 <br />5 Evan Gwen: We did. <br />6 <br />7 John Price: If we could go back to the beginning photo on the power point? There are a number of <br />8 photos that were taken of this nature. Who took the photos? <br />9 <br />10 Evan Gwen: My wife and I took these photos. <br />11 <br />12 John Price: And were you present when the photograph was taken? <br />13 <br />14 Evan Gwen: I was. <br />15 <br />16 John Price: Would you describe what that shows? <br />17 <br />18 Evan Gwen: I will. This and the next six photos from various angles show that the balloon test was <br />19 a misrepresentation of the height of the balloon as it was snagged at multiple locations in the pine <br />20 trees. We were standing at the very base where the string was tied, saw the string hit a pine <br />21 branch and then horizontally, if not downward, for what I paced out to be an estimation of 100 feet <br />22 before it hit another snag and went straight up into the very low winds that day. So I do not <br />23 attribute personally the wind being a factor but the visbile snags in the trees holding that line <br />24 down, my guess around 100 -feet. <br />25 <br />26 John Price: Would you go to the next slide, please? And would you describe what this is? <br />27 <br />28 Evan Gwen: It's a different angle of the balloon line. The arrow on the left and then the oliptical <br />29 red shape is showing that line in a snag and then how far away the actual balloon is that you can <br />30 see through the trees inside the red circle the red balloon. <br />31 <br />32 John Price: Next slide please. <br />33 <br />34 Evan Gwen: Similar situation. The balloon line is running horizontally to the ground in that oliptical <br />35 shape to misrepresent the height of the proposed tower. <br />36 <br />37 John Price: Next slide please. What does this show? <br />38 <br />OC Board of Adjustment — 12/12/16 Page 68 of 156 <br />