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Approved 7/8/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 6/10/2013 Page 81 of 92 1 Karen Kemerait: As Mr. Harvey said, we are filing an application for a Class B Special Use Permit 2 application. The tower will not be lit. It will be less than 200 feet so it will not have to be lit. It will be 3 a 199 foot monopole and it will be located on a 100 by 100 foot leased area on Mr. and Mrs. Yow’s 4 property. As I previously mentioned, the property is a large tract of land, 28 acres, and it is used for 5 farmland. The property is zoned rural buffer and the tower will be located 375 feet from Sesame 6 Road and 219 feet from the property line. Under tab 6, we have site plans; this is an enlarged page 7 from the site plan. It shows the 100 foot by 100 foot leased area with the 60 foot by 60 foot fenced 8 enclosure. The antennas, as required by the ordinance, will be flush mounted to the tower which 9 means they will be pressed up against the tower so they will not be visible. The intent is that you 10 typically see the protrude away from the tower. We have shown that we are meeting all the FCC 11 requirements regarding emissions and we have shown that there will be an access road which will be 12 a 12 foot access road that will come from Sesame Road. I would like to touch a little on the access 13 road. The access road, as I mentioned, will be a gravel road and it will come from Old Greensboro 14 Road, has access to Sesame Road and the gravel access road will come off Sesame Road. Sesame 15 Road is a secondary road. DOT has provided this information. The secondary roads are appropriate 16 for residential uses, farming uses and industrial uses. The tower use will generate almost no traffic 17 whatsoever. The tower will be an unmanned facility and it will generate two to four vehicles per 18 month for maintenance purposes only. The construction of the tower will occur and take about four 19 weeks and it could be a shorter period of time. The reason I bring up the Sesame Road and the 20 access road is when I attended the community meeting, there was some concern about the traffic 21 that could be generated along Sesame Road and as I mentioned it will be an unmanned facility and 22 there will only be, at most, two to four vehicle trips per month so virtually no traffic will be generated 23 from this tower along Sesame Road and according to DOT standards, secondary roads are 24 appropriate for residential farming, business and industrial uses. I believe that most residential, 25 business and industrial uses will generate significantly more traffic than two to four vehicle trips that 26 this tower use will generate. Also, there was some concern that a school bus drop off and pick up 27 occurred along Sesame Road. As I mentioned this is a 60 foot right of way so there will be ample 28 access for a school bus and maintenance trucks. During the four week construction period, I have 29 spoken with American Tower and we are willing to show good faith and even though there will be no 30 hazard whatsoever, we will determine when the school bus drop off and pick up occurs and ensure 31 that none of the construction trucks are traveling along Sesame Road during school bus drop off and 32 pick up time periods. 33 34 Karen Barrows: There is a letter in here from David Sykes, who is the Assistant Fire Marshall, and he 35 said the tower owner will need a plan that allows access to the facility at any time. Have you spoken 36 to that yet? 37 38 Karen Kemerait: Yes. We are providing a plan about access that can be provided according to what 39 Mr. Sykes has stated. That will be addressed. 40 41 Michael Harvey: That will also be a condition of approval for the building permit that the fire marshal 42 has to sign off on the building permit application before a certificate of occupancy is issued and that 43 assumes this permit is issued, the fire marshal will have to sign off on it. 44 45 Karen Kemerait: Under tab 7 of the application materials, we have provided information about the 46 balloon test. As I mentioned the balloon test was conducted on April 20. The balloon test will show 47 that this is a very good location for the tower. The visibility of the tower is going to be extremely 48 limited. It will not be visible from most locations. The top of the tower will be visible from a few 49 locations. It will be visible when you are driving east along Old Greensboro Road towards Carrboro 50 and it will also be visible from a few of the houses located along Pineview Road but for the locations 51 where the tower will be visible, the base of the tower will not be visible at all and only the top of the 52 tower will be visible. We have shown that we have met all the technical requirements of the 53