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OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 10 of 68 it will be shielded by the trees on the property line. I know there has been a lot of discussion and comments made and I 1 want to offer this up front as options and we are willing to accept either one . It is in this board’s prerogative to decide 2 which one but there was the issue about stealthing and hiding the tower. There are two things we are offering to help. 3 One, with the monopole, we can agree to put the antennas in a close mount. There would be about 2 foot arms sticking 4 out from the tower so you wouldn’t be sticking out this far but sticking up against the pole more so. We are willing from 5 an aesthetic point of view to offer that as one option and the other option is like the tower further d own Kerley Road that 6 we are going to address now. We are willing to make this be a pine tree and that has been mentioned by some of the 7 public and comments. We are willing to do that consistent with the other one that exists if the board feels like that is 8 where we need to go in view of the ordinance. Some folks feel the pine tree can be more apparent that is something 9 different. The flush mount antennas are close to the pole and it looks like a single pole and it doesn’t stick out as much. 10 Those are the two options we will put on the table and I’m glad for this board to determine which way they feel like, 11 should they decide to approve it, to go with that. 12 13 Jeff Schmitt: Do you have a picture of this looking like a pine tree? 14 15 Tom Johnson: If I had internet service I can pull one up. It will be similar to the one down the road. This is just a little 16 taller than that. The one down the road is 115 feet; this will be 125 feet so you are adding 10 feet but basically the 17 same as the one down the street. 18 19 Larry Wright: You are talking about the panels that go up on the pole and some would be closer proximity of the pole . 20 We have a telecommunications tower very close to our property and they keep adding. Will you be adding panels on to 21 this over time? 22 23 Tom Johnson: Over time, up and down the pole with other carriers but as a tower owner, which I represent Skyway 24 Towers as well, you can do it as part of the ordinance, you could say they need to be close mount. When I say close 25 mount, they are two foot long arms that would mount to the antennas so it would be closer to the pole. They were 26 required of the ordinance to provide for co -location as well. If you will look at the design in the packet, the tower design 27 that actually came from the tower manufact urer that provides for up to four co-locations. We are willing to stipulate that 28 we use the shorter arms on here because it makes the antennas more blend in with the pole. 29 30 Larry Wright: Do you co-locate on the stealth tower? 31 32 Tom Johnson: What I consider to be stealth is the two things I am offering up. The shorter arms because that moves 33 them in closer to the pole so others can mount on that. Tower design is Tab 9. The Monopine does the same thing. It 34 is considered a stealth and it tries to make it look like a tree to blend in with the surroundings but also uses the limbs to 35 hide the antennas and the reason you would close mount those antennas because we tried to get those within the 36 branches so they would not be readily apparent. As I mentio ned the case in Durham County, Durham County’s 37 Ordinances readily identifiable as a tower and the core case found that a pine was not readily identifiable as a tower but 38 again the standard was that particular language in the Durham County Court. 39 40 Larry Wright: Did you bring this up in your neighborhood meetings? 41 42 Tom Johnson: In terms of offering that, no. I had to get permission from my client but I saw…my client likes to listen to 43 what is happening in the community. The feedback we got from the neighb orhood meeting was pretty strongly. One of 44 the comments was to stealth it more, maybe do a monopine, so I got permission from my client to make that offer to the 45 board based upon those comments from the neighborhood meeting. Again, some like the regular monopole better. 46 What we were getting from the community is from some of the comments, they might like the monopine better which will 47 make it stealthier the closer on the monopine we do so we took that to heart so tonight I am authorized to make that 48 proposal to this board. 49 50