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OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 31 of 68 Bob Hornik: It is not a thick growth of trees but a single line of trees. This is a photograph taken from the application 1 package and it shows the Lake Hogan Farms Tower. This label confirms tower. Again, I was talking to Mr. Smith about 2 this just a few minutes ago, Redfoot Run, the access drive into the Lake Hogan Farms Tower. The tower is in fact 3 surrounded by a growth of trees. Not just a line of trees but a growth of trees. This is the Duke Energy power line that 4 lies between the tower site and the Lake Hogan Farms properties. You w ill see that the rear yards of the adjoining… I 5 say adjoining because they join the power easement not the tower site. The Lake Hogan Farms properties are heavily 6 wooded in their rear yards. These photographs are taken from Mr. Smith’s report. They show the view from 106/107 7 Lake Hogan Drive towards the tower, the tower in the distance between the trees. Bottom photograph was taken from 8 103 Randolph Court, Lake Hogan Farms. You can see the tower behind it. Going back to the previous photograph, 9 here is Randolph Court, there is the tower. This is Hogan Woods Circle and the tower. Here is a photograph of the 10 Lake Hogan Farm’s tower taken from the front of 103 Randolph Court about three weeks ago. I would ask the board to 11 compare it to the bottom photograph on the previous page. There is a considerable difference in the visual effect of this 12 tower in May compared to whenever it was that Mr. Smith or whoever took that photograph which was used in Mr. 13 Smith’s report. I was sworn in and I can testify that Lake Hogan Farms really don’t know that this tower is there 14 because it is obscured by trees for nine months of the year. This photograph taken about three weeks ago is 15 essentially the same photograph as the top photograph from 106 and 107 Hogan’s Woods Circle. If you compare the 16 two, you can see this tree is this tree. Here is the tower in the background. In this photograph, you just never see the 17 tower. Both of the photographs taken from Mr. Smith’s report from 301/306 Hogan Wood’s Circle where you see the 18 tower in the background from 204 Hogan Woods Circle where you see the tower in the background. If you look at this 19 photograph which was taken three weeks ago, a little closer up than the photo at the top of this page , they have the 20 same two buildings just a little closer up. There is the tower, the trees in the background. Again, this tower is in the 21 back yard of all these lots that we are talking about at Lake Hogan Farms so no one walks out their front door and sees 22 this tower. Here is another photograph of the same tower. You can see the very top of the tower, you can’t see any of 23 the base of the tower. This is from 306 Hogan Woods Circle. Another view of the Lake Hogan Farms tower from 204 24 Hogan Woods Circle. Again, the tower is primarily… except the top is obscured by trees and growth. Another 25 photograph taken from Mr. Smith’s report showing the Lake Hogan Farms tower from the access drive and from 26 305/314 Hogan Woods Circle. Here is a photograph of the tower from 305 Hogan Woods Circle . A photo of the tower 27 in the distance at 314 Hogan Woods Circle. Here is a photograph of the tower as you look from here to up the access 28 drive to the tower site. You see the base station, you see the tower and you see a pretty significant growth of tr ees 29 surrounding the base of the tower. I will remind the board that the Lake Hogan Farms tower was built in 1996 predated 30 the existence of the homes in the Lake Hogan Farms subdivision so unlike the situation here where you would have the 31 support of a previous tower, the 129 foot monopole being placed where it doesn’t already exist in Lake Hogan Farms 32 you had a developer building and residents buying in a location where the tower already existed. That is an important 33 difference. This is an aerial photo we had prepared that shows the search ring…. 34 35 Tom Johnson: Is this part of this packet? 36 37 Bob Hornik: It is a separate photo that was printed out today. 38 39 Jeff Schmitt: So the answer is… 40 41 Bob Hornik: I do not have a copy of that at the moment but I’ll sub mit this for the record. Here we have the Orange 42 County/Durham County line. The tower proposed in this location and the data indicates that 91 percent of the search 43 ring is in Durham County and 9 percent of the search ring is in Orange County and we think that is important for the 44 board’s consideration when the board considers whether this tower at this location satisfies the requirements of the 45 Orange County UDO. I want to talk for a few minutes about some of the requirements of the UDO. 46 47 Samantha Cabe: What correlation are you attempting to make between the search ring and the propagation because I 48 think they are two different of things. 49 50