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OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 27 of 68 1 Tom Johnson: Again, I can speak to that. There are photographs as part of your packet, and I will direct your attention 2 to the back of the appraisal. There are photographs of the property. Mr. Hornik was asking me about the visibility of 3 the tower to the adjoining properties. These are pictures of the tower on Lake Hogan Farm. And what did you find in 4 that observation of the tower with respect to the properties that you analyzed. 5 6 David Smith: That they were highly visible and more visible than the one on Kerley Road. 7 8 Tom Johnson: There were trees intervening but you could still see it. 9 10 Female: I’m sorry we can’t hear in the back can you use the mic. 11 12 Tom Johnson: Even though there were trees, you could still see the top of the tower. 13 14 David Smith: The tower was much more visible than from the Kerley Road site. 15 16 Tom Johnson: And why did you say it would be much more visible? 17 18 David Smith: Because they stick up over the trees a lot higher than the tower on Kerley Road and it is also a lattice 19 structure. 20 21 Tom Johnson: When you say lattice structure, what do you mean, as opposed to monopole? 22 23 David Smith: Opposed to a monopole, yes. 24 25 Tom Johnson: I would like to direct the board’s attention to the photographs that are in the back of Mr. Smith’s report 26 and I am glad for Mr. Smith’s availability to answer any further questions you may have regarding his report. Because it 27 seems to be so important according to what Mr. Hornik mentioned, I would like Mr. Hill to come back up. He can speak 28 to noise and things of that nature because he is the one tha t is in charge of the site so I would like him to speak to that 29 and clarify that. 30 31 Robert Hill: Not including construction, the 30 days during construction, we have a cell tech that drives a truck down 32 the access road, probably once a month would be the a verage so, that will be vehicular traffic on the site. As far as 33 noise, the only thing that makes noise on the site is the HVAC unit. Our equipment does not have that , just a small 34 handling unit. It is very small what we are putting up for this build ing but comparing the noise you would hear for future 35 tenants should say AT&T with a shelter. It sounds like the HVAC unit in your home. It is very comparable to a 12 by 20 36 shelter. That is the only noise that would be at a site. 37 38 Larry Wright: Do you have a generator there? 39 40 Robert Hill: No. Verizon does internal generators so you don’t hear them but the other carriers use a baffled generator 41 so they are not a generator you would hear going down the highway doing power and lights. I can’t really give you a 42 description but they are not as loud as a normal general generator but in this particular case, we don’t have generators 43 so there wouldn’t be one. 44 45 Larry Wright: On what par does it work if there is an overall power outage in the neighborhood? 46 47 Robert Hill: It doesn’t work for long. We lose power… the site doesn’t stay on air maybe 30 minutes. 48 49 Tom Johnson: Maybe on occasion if it is a critical site, you might bring in a generator? 50