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OC Board of Adjustment – 6/8/2015 Page 9 of 68 computers, more and more, that is where everything is going. Data traffic is driving the demand to have more so than 1 voice. They need to have more towers in order to have more capability and when you get in a public world’s 4G speed, 2 they need 4G speeds and again, that is what I showed in 2007 when the IPhone was released. By 2016, the estimate 3 will be 1.4 wireless devices for every person in the world. That is because you have got your IPhone and IPad or yo ur 4 computer and you will have more than one. Again, a good number of us use those multiple devices. Demographics 5 affect this; the younger generation is using wireless more and more. It is used for eLearning, eHealth, eCommerce, 6 that is why the goals are in your ordinance and the user expectations have changed. What we used to view as an 7 option has now become a necessity in terms of wireless. This is the result of the Balloon Test and I want to address 8 that in terms of looking at aesthetics. This is a more accurate location of where the tower is supposed to be. You might 9 ask in this location, why did we not go up against the trees that are on the property line here. The reason we can’t is 10 because the ordinance has a required setback of 110% of the tow er height which is what Mr. Harvey mentioned earlier 11 of the 125 foot tower. Therefore in order to meet that we had to move further out into the property in order to be able to 12 do that. This is just a map of the different locations that pictures were take n of the balloon on the Balloon Test and Mr. 13 Graham Herring is here tonight to answer any questions about this. He actually did photo simulations based upon 14 these photographs. When you see NV that means the tower was not visible or the balloon was not vi sible at those 15 locations. This is a view from Location 1 from the south on Kerley Road toward the site. You can see the red balloon 16 there. This is the tower as it would be superimposed for a traditional monopole tower simulated from that location. As 17 you can see perspective does a lot of things. The tower, in this instance, looks closer than the power pole that’s closer 18 to where the photograph was taken. You can see power lines going back and forth at this angle are taller than the 19 tower. In this location, you can barely see the balloon, that is w hy we have the yellow arrow to show where the balloon 20 was and this is further down Kerley Road from the site. This is from the adjoining subdivision. Again, you could barely 21 see it in the trees. That is what the yellow is pointing out where the balloon was. From this location, again, all this was 22 done from public rights of way; we do not have permission to go onto private property so these were all public rights of 23 way in the area. This location in the cul-de-sac, it was non-visible. Again, it was not visible here because of elevation 24 and vegetation. The view from Location 7, this is the intersection from Kerley and Mt. Sinai Road again looking straight 25 at the site. Obviously there are no trees here and it is flatter but look at the other parts you see. What do you see at 26 this intersection; you see massive power lines that pre-exist this tower and the balloon from this perspective is within 27 this power line. It doesn’t look unlike the utility pole holding up those wires but from this location that is the perspective. 28 Again, this is a view from looking back at the site along Mt. Sinai Road a little further down. It is above the power lines; 29 the power lines are still there and this is what it would look like if it were superimposed. 30 31 Samantha Cabe: Can I ask you a question about the previous picture? I know that your picture does not superimpose 32 the fencing and enclosure that will go around; would that be visible from that? 33 34 Tom Johnson: Yes, it would be visible from this location but we have a landscape requirement and basically there is a 35 barn here that you can see that will be removed to get it out of the setback. I think you may have seen that referenced 36 in the materials. This barn is going to be removed and there will be a fence and vegetati on as required by the 37 ordinance, landscape buffer around the base of the tower , that is mainly covering the ground equipment and in this 38 case T-Mobile uses utility cabinets not unlike the power cabinets you see around the right -of-way in various locations. 39 They do not use an actual shelter but some carriers in the future may use a shelter which is like a small utility building. 40 The purpose of the landscaping is predominately to cover that equipment so you can’t see it. This is from around the 41 curve on Mt. Sinai going away from the site. You can barely make out the balloon. This is down Kerley Road, a set of 42 apartments, you can see the balloon in the power lines and this is where the tower superimposed from the apartments 43 and again, from the perspective, the power lines look bigger. This is from the driveway of the Senior Living Home that 44 is across from the site on Mt. Sinai Road at the site. Literally, this is the most direct view that you can see but if you p ut 45 the tower here, again, perspective tells you a lot. This is a light pole from the parking lot at the Senior Living Facility 46 and at this location it looks to be the same height and again you still have power lines showing on the site. This is from 47 the adjoining property owner on the other side of the grove of trees that I spoke to saying, you know we could have 48 moved the tower toward that group of trees but for the setback the tower gets lost in the trees and they not really even 49 in full leaf at this time because of when we took the picture. As you can see the balloon right here from the tower when 50