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<br />OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 22 of 68 <br /> 1 <br />Tom Johnson: I object to that. 2 <br /> 3 <br />Larry Wright: I think that is sustained. 4 <br /> 5 <br />Tom Johnson: I will admit that I paid him to do the report. 6 <br /> 7 <br />Bob Hornik: How much time did you spend on the report? 8 <br /> 9 <br />David Smith: Roughly a week. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Bob Hornik: 40 hours? 12 <br /> 13 <br />David Smith: Yes. 14 <br /> 15 <br />Bob Hornik: Have you ever prepared a report concerning the impact of a cell tower on property values before? 16 <br /> 17 <br />David Smith: Not for Mr. Johnson, but yes I have in the past. 18 <br /> 19 <br />Bob Hornik: In the past? How many times? 20 <br /> 21 <br />David Smith: Maybe in the past 5 years, maybe 15 times. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Bob Hornik: Have you prepared reports for cell tower owners and operators and carriers each time or have you done 24 <br />reports for property owners? 25 <br /> 26 <br />David Smith: Never for property owners. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Bob Hornik: So always for the applicant of the cell tower? 29 <br /> 30 <br />David Smith: Correct. 31 <br /> 32 <br />Bob Hornik: Have you ever seen a location of a tower that would impact adjoining property owners? 33 <br /> 34 <br />David Smith: Yes. 35 <br /> 36 <br />Bob Hornik: How familiar are you with the Lake Hogan Farms towers? 37 <br /> 38 <br />David Smith: I drove out to the neighborhood and took pictures of it. There is a site of antenna search that gives you 39 <br />details about it. 40 <br /> 41 <br />Bob Hornik: What came first, the tower or the houses in that section, do you know? 42 <br /> 43 <br />David Smith: I believe the tower was already there. 44 <br /> 45 <br />Bob Hornik: The tower was built about 1996, does that sound right?’ 46 <br /> 47 <br />David Smith: That sounds right. 48 <br /> 49 <br />Bob Hornik: Homes started being built there in around 2000 and 2001? 50