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Approved 8/11/2014 OC Board of Adjustment – 4/22/2014 Page 7 of 69 Karen Kemerait: This may be a technical question for Mr. Monroe. I don’t think they are directing signals; there is a 1 limited area that the antennas will provide coverage for so it is going to be providing a geographic ring around the 2 tower so it is not directing it north or south but generally a ring around the tower. How much of it will be a circle or 3 ring will depend on topography, trees, terrain and matters like that. 4 5 Rusty Monroe: I am representing Carolina Telecommunication Services, the county’s consultant on this. The short 6 and quick answer is that the coverage is not determined primarily by the signal emanating out from the tower or 7 antennas. The limits of the coverage are determined by the ability of the handset to reach back to those antennas 8 and talk to them. With today’s technology, the power of your handset is getting lower and lower. The original 9 phones were 9 watt phones, bag phones, today’s handsets are powered about .4 of one watt which would light one 10 mini Christmas tree bulb so the range of the phone itself is the limiting factor. These facilities are designed as a 11 general rule for 360 degree service so what you are looking at is somewhere between two and three miles is really 12 pushing it for the reliable use of a phone. Keep in mind; we are not talking exclusively about phone service 13 anymore. In fact, the majority of traffic on one of these sites is not voice but data. The effect range is between two 14 and three miles today without an obstruction and that range will be shrinking. To give you some kind of idea and the 15 industry has acknowledged the validity of these numbers for a number of reasons primarily capacity or lack of 16 capacity of each of these sites. They will ultimately need, each carrier will need a facility to serve about somewhere 17 between 50 and 75 living units so you can do the math but nationally, you are talking millions of sites. That is just 18 the nature of technology and propagation and demand. This site is intended to fill a gap in service. The gap does 19 exist and this service will fill that gap. I am sure it is not the last site AT&T will be applying for and I am fairly 20 confident that they will be filling in the remaining gaps. 21 22 Karen Kemerait: As Mr. Harvey said, since it is only a 199 foot tower, it will not lit as required by the ordinance, and I 23 want to briefly mention that we have met the general use standards of the application and that is included in the 24 project narrative but I have provided information to show that a proposed tower will maintain or promote the public 25 health, safety and general welfare and I have provided a significant amount of detail of how we are meeting these 26 general requirement. We have shown the antennas will meet the FCC and American National Standard Institute 27 requirements. The tower will enable residents and people in their cars to make emergency calls, 911 calls, and it will 28 also promote the public convenience by promoting economic development in the northern part of the county. I have 29 also shown that the use will maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property and included under Tab 36, we 30 have the property impact report. David Smith is here and prepared and he has concluded that the proposed tower 31 will maintain or enhance the value of the contiguous property. He is here to answer any questions. I have also 32 shown that the proposed tower will be in harmony with the area. The site is partially wooded. There are significant 33 wooded areas to the east and south of the location and the woods will provide a natural landscape buffer. The tower 34 will be located a significant distance from the adjoining properties and the closest road and we have also provided 35 that this is not a service facility that is open to the public. It will be unmanned. It will only generate two to four 36 vehicle trips per month. There will be no noise, glare or odor from this use. The use will be similar to some of the 37 other rural uses in the area. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. 38 39 Mark Micol: This will add high speed internet service with data and voice? 40 41 Rusty Monroe: Yes, this will be a 4G service. 42 43 David Vetter: I live in Efland close to Cedar Grove. One of my concerns about moving out here a few years ago was 44 a lack of internet service….I have been sworn in….and it is still a big lack so I am with Verizon. I don’t know if AT&T 45 plans to sublet any of the bandwidth to other carriers or not, I hope so but if not, I would like to see Verizon put one 46 up because I have to have a land line because I don’t have sufficient cell phone signal to use a cell phone in the 47 house so I have to have a land line. I also use my internet and use a Verizon box to provide my own small cell 48