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Approved 9/10/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 14 of 82 could not maintain a conversation over the wireless cell phone in White Cross. That is no way to do business. The 1 lack of competition may be part of it. The lack of towers is definitely part of it. I ask the board to approve this 2 application. We badly need it to thrive and grow in rural Orange County without losing what keeps Orange County 3 rural. 4 5 Larry Wright: Who is your carrier? 6 7 Art Menius: My carrier is Verizon. 8 9 Michael Harvey: Mr. Chairman, David Smith is the next person signed up to speak. Unless Mr. Smith has anything to 10 add, the next person is Diane Riggsbee. 11 12 Diane Riggsbee: My name is Diane Riggsbee and I have been sworn. I am a realtor as well as a resident. My parents 13 bought property down Sesame Road and I actually want to point out that they drew a map but failed to indicate 14 Sesame on the map so if you look at it from where this tower is supposed to go, it is going to be Sesame coming right 15 down here but we don’t see Sesame at all and the residents that are here either grew up on Sesame or came, 16 because my family bought a house in 1963 so we have owned property for 50 years down Sesame Road when there 17 was no development going on. The Neville’s owned property and Betty Sue married John Yow so they own property 18 all around Sesame and the Perry’s own the rest of it and on the other end, Watts Johnson owned a 12 acre tract that 19 bordered Greensboro Highway. They don’t show the tree lining. 50 years ago, there was a dirt road, I had to 20 condemn John Yow’s property and Watts Johnson’s property just to get the road paved. He didn’t want to move the 21 tree line but now he is agreeing to but he will have enough money to maintain trees because when it is paid to have 22 the cell tower there, he will have more than enough money but he didn’t want to move the fence because his fencing 23 for his cattle was the tree line so we had to condemn the property. I had to collect money from the residents just to get 24 a paved road after it moved sometime in the 80s up to first position, DOT went through that process and we finally got 25 it paved. Now he is agreeing to do it. John owns property, if you remember; his address is Greensboro Highway so 26 why is this cell tower bordering Sesame Road. He can’t see the cell tower from where he lives. I dare say that John 27 and Betty will not be able to see this cell tower at all but the residents that live down Sesame will see it every day when 28 they go home and if you want to put it somewhere, put it where they can see. He has properties on both sides of this 29 driveway going down Greensboro Highway. Why didn’t you choose to put it on the front lawn where he can get a good 30 signal? There are no trees blocking it there at all. It is just amazing to me to have to be involved when there is a 31 financial gain for him and he agreeing to maintain tree line that he would not agree to when we were just trying to get it 32 paved …. ‘cause he was not affected. He didn’t have to bother with the dust or anything coming off Sesame Road and 33 I see the same thing here, he ignores the residents off Sesame because his property borders Sesame. The other 34 thing I noticed in the conversation is that nobody bothers, nobody has actually witnessed the tower and seemingly the 35 visibility of the tower and how it will look ‘cause she had to explain it again. The other thing is no one has made a 36 visual inspection to see… you were asking where are the tree lines? There is not a whole lot of distance between the 37 tree line going down Sesame and the fencing thats supporting both through the fence, a post, a tree and they are 38 steady falling. There is not a wide area, maybe 150 feet if this tower is going to be placed where I think it will be 39 placed so I behoove you to do an inspection of wherever you make a decision that will impact other people’s lives. 40 Take the time to look at the properties affected so you can make an informed decision as to who it is going to impact 41 and how close it will be and to see an actual that AT&T is going to put up. The young man got up before me 42 mentioned that he can’t get service and he has Verizon service. I have no problem getting Verizon service where I 43 grew up. I have gotten Verizon service; I lived down there when I was a child, moved away, still own property on 44 Sesame. Granted, when my AT&T friends go down there, they can’t get phone service but my Verizon phone picks up 45 just fine. Mother has Time Warner. She has a land line. You might want to consider that because cable service will 46 go back to analog… what we all had before we had digital service. I chose not to get AT&T Sprint because they only 47 offer digital service. Why they can’t consider, if I can get Verizon, does Verizon have more space on one of their 48 towers for AT&T? That way we don’t have to deal with the eyesore. 49 50