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OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 17 of 68 support structure or the existing wireless telecommunications structure cannot be ea sily modified. These are all “ors” 1 so the applicant has to demonstrate we can’t meet one of these standards, it’s not “and”. It’s not all five that have to be 2 met by our current ordinance. I believe some of the ambiguity some of you have expressed conce rn about with the 3 iteration of state statute is covered under our existing code. 4 5 Tom Johnson: We would agree with Mr. Harvey because that is exactly our point. The part about it not meeting the 6 objectives and not being technically sufficient at that site to meet the objectives of Mr. Kerlin has testified is our point. 7 That is one of those “ors” and that is the “or” we are focusing on because that is a key point here. 8 9 Bob Hornik: The co-location possibility on the existing Kerley Road tower does improve coverage in the area, right? 10 11 Lee Kerlin: Certainly. 12 13 Bob Hornik: It just doesn’t meet your standard for what you want to provide. 14 15 Tom Johnson: Please say what it does for you in terms of connecting with your existing towers. 16 17 Lee Kerlin: The proposal we have before you provides a lot of coverage out into the county to the northwest. We 18 expect connectivity to our network to the northeast of Erwin Road. We expect connectivity to the south and we also 19 provide more coverage into the neighborhoods to the southeast which is part of the objective. 20 21 Bob Hornik: You are saying the American Tower site would not do that? 22 23 Lee Kerlin: It does not meet those objectives. 24 25 Bob Hornik: The potential co-location at the Kerley Road meets all the same objectives but it just doesn’t go quite as 26 far, right, looking at the propagation map? 27 28 Lee Kerlin: It doesn’t meet them at the signal strength that we need to provide. 29 30 Bob Hornik: It covers almost the same area or territory but the dark green coverage is less, right? 31 32 Lee Kerlin: Yes, the total coverage is smaller. 33 34 Bob Hornik: Is the minus 90 dbm, do you drop calls at minus 90? 35 36 Lee Kerlin: It depends. You can’t say that at 90 you drop calls, quality is important as well as sign al strength. 37 38 Bob Hornik: So on your propagation maps, white is no coverage? 39 40 Lee Kerlin: Yes, that is off network for us when you consider various signal strength. I’m not saying you could never 41 reach a tower from that and don’t forget this is a two way street, your handset also has to communicate back to the 42 tower otherwise we would just make an FM broadcast tower and cover everywhere. 43 44 Bob Hornik: And negative 104 is kind of pale green? 45 46 Lee Kerlin: Yes. 47 48 Bob Hornik: And that is coverage, right? 49 50