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Approved 7/8/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 6/10/2013 Page 87 of 92 a wood working business a little further down, a gentleman owns a towing company. You know if you 1 had your car towed and want to make a telephone call to whoever just took it, you sure hope it rings 2 and you hope they answer so George’s Towing does a whole lot of business by cell phone. In fact, 3 ensues the Town of Chapel Hill for the ability to use his cell phone in doing that business and that is 4 really important. Also spoke with CEOs of local companies who live in the area and talked about 5 communicating back to their business is really important so from my professional opinion and work 6 with thousands of businesses over a decade, this is an infrastructure that is critical. Our Chamber of 7 Commerce has never spoken to the Board of Adjustment before, not at the county, not at the city, not 8 at the town so why rise tonight and that is because the issue is so important and so we hope that you 9 will hear that as well. As I have commented earlier, our interest is also in equitable access. It 10 shouldn’t just be the case of people who live in dense areas or who live along a transit corridor or who 11 live on 54 or Highway 40 nor do we want it to be the case that people should have to leave their 12 house to walk to the corner to get cell phone coverage or they should leave their business to drive 13 towards the highway to pick up a telephone call. W e want equitable access throughout the county 14 and the public policy objectives are really important and we hope the standard is not whether you see 15 it or not, that is a standard that won’t survive as we need to go across the county. The testimony 16 earlier which we hear from realtors as well, is that you can see it doesn’t have a negative impact on 17 your property value which is a standard you have before you and we hope you will support approving 18 this tower; it’s important to our local business community and to the folks who work there. Thank you. 19 20 Michael Harvey: The next two individuals are with the applicant, David Lacava and Stephen Howard. 21 Then we have Mr. Gary Dixon. 22 23 Gary Dixon: This being the first time this is on this hearing, I had asked for a 30-day adjournment to 24 procreate for this. We were notified of the public hearing two weeks ago even though we knew about 25 the cell tower, we did not know about the public hearing. We thought we would have more time than 26 two weeks. I had handed out a letter signed by our petitioners, the adjoining property owners but I 27 never got an opportunity to ask for a delay or adjournment. I am not sure what happened in the 28 procedure. Mr. Harvey said this is the first time on and it is possible and it is a very good chance to 29 get 30 days to simply prepare for this. 30 31 Larry Wright: Are you asking for one now? 32 33 Gary Dixon: Yes; a thirty day adjournment to better prepare for this. We were notified of the public 34 hearing two weeks ago. 35 36 Larry Wright: Let me consult our attorney. 37 38 James Bryan: I believe it would be in… They don’t have to but they could to allow for more fact 39 finding. 40 41 Larry Wright: You feel that within 30 days, if we continue this and adjourn for 30 days, not adjourn 42 but have a continuance for 30 days, have a recess for 30 days that you could come back and be 43 prepared. 44 45 Greg Dixon: Yes sir. 46 47 Larry Wright: What we would do is this would be sort of a recess? 48 49 James Bryan: You could recess that would be fine. 50 51 Larry Wright: For 30 days and we do not have to repeat the testimony but we cannot discuss this, 52 right? 53