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Approved 9/10/2013 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 10 of 82 <br /> <br />help me show the maps. The first map is the map of the area and this is the tower sight. This shows the general area 1 <br />we are talking about; the coverage that is currently available and will be available and this is the tower site application. 2 <br />This shows the roads. The second map is this map. This is the tower site location and surrounding it is the pink and 3 <br />white and that means no coverage whatsoever and the pink area means very unreliable coverage. It does show there 4 <br />is coverage in these areas moving west of the tower site with greatly insufficient coverage. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Larry Wright: Is this coverage for AT&T or Verizon or everything? 7 <br /> 8 <br />Karen Kemerait: For AT&T only. The third map shows the coverage that AT&T has planned for this area of the 9 <br />county and the sites that have the dark blue or purple colors are locations where there is already coverage. 10 <br /> 11 <br />Samantha Cabe: From existing towers? 12 <br /> 13 <br />Karen Kemerait: This is the coverage that is currently available and this is the tower site for the application and these 14 <br />areas are proposed sites. As you can see, there will still be more coverage needed in Orange County in order to have 15 <br />an area in which the entire county has sufficient coverage but it is a very significant step in the right direction if you 16 <br />compare the difference between AT&T moving forward with its plan with the right areas and what will be available 17 <br />once AT&T’s plans have been approved. This tower application before the board today is a really significant one 18 <br />which I think there is such great interest from the Chamber and from members of the community because it is the first 19 <br />piece of the puzzle in which it is a critical piece for the coverage that will be provided subsequently. Of course, if we do 20 <br />not have coverage in that area, we can still move forward with the other sites but there would be a very significant gap 21 <br />in coverage moving toward Chapel Hill in the area in which you want to have the different sites tie into one another so 22 <br />this is what AT&T currently has planned and funded for Orange County. This is the additional information I wanted to 23 <br />provide. 24 <br /> 25 <br />Samantha Cabe: Did you provide 8 ½ by 11 copies to submit into the record? 26 <br /> 27 <br />Karen Kemerait: No, but I can provide these later after the hearing. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Samantha Cabe: Is that okay? 30 <br /> 31 <br />James Bryan: Can you leave those? 32 <br /> 33 <br />Karen Kemerait: I can ask. 34 <br /> 35 <br />Michael Harvey: Those will have to be left; there is no way around that. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Karen Kemerait: I can also leave the orientation map. 38 <br /> 39 <br />Mark Micol: Will this tower have any impact on emergency communication at all in Orange County? 40 <br /> 41 <br />Karen Kemerait: Yes. It will have an impact on emergency communication for the customers of AT&T because in 42 <br />times of storms, hurricanes, disaster types of situations, the land line system goes down. Typically what happens is 43 <br />the telecommunications coverage is all the coverage, reliable form of coverage, telephone coverage. We also are 44 <br />going to allow, as part of the application, to allow the county to place its emergency equipment on this tower. That is 45 <br />one of the requirements of the ordinance. 46 <br /> 47 <br />Mark Micol: They will do that after the offer is made? 48 <br /> 49