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Approved 9/10/2013 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 19 of 82 <br /> <br />Michael Harvey: The next person signed up is Libby Hough. 1 <br /> 2 <br />Libby Hough: I have been sworn in. As a rural resident living in the rural buffer, not down in White Cross but up on 3 <br />Bingham Township. We have coupled together our phone service and internet service because AT&T hasn’t worked 4 <br />where we are so we are AT&T regular phone and internet and Verizon cell phone. The way I learned that AT&T didn’t 5 <br />work was about 10 years ago during the 2002 ice storm. We lost power for seven days while my husband was in 6 <br />sunny California I was at home with two small children, no power, no toilets and no water and no phone except for 7 <br />8:00 in the evening I could stand on my tiptoes in one spot in my house. That was a safety consideration for us and 8 <br />then I switched our cell phone coverage. Fast forward to about a month ago, I have an older daughter who has a life 9 <br />threatening heart condition and I received a telephone call while away from the house that she was again in the 10 <br />emergency room this time in the mountains of North Carolina after a seizure. I rushed home, tried to use my cell 11 <br />phone because I don’t pay for my long distance on my land line. I pay for that on my cell phone. The coverage was 12 <br />spotty at best. I was not able to be in communication with the emergency room when my daughter was there. Then I 13 <br />went to the business line that I pay for with AT&T so we have three phone services and was able to call out long 14 <br />distance that way fortunately but it underscored my lack of ability to communicate with others in times of need. I am 15 <br />also a small business owner and started my business at my home so I could be at home with my children as needed. 16 <br />Our internet service goes down quite a bit. When that happens I have to pack up and go from my home in rural 17 <br />Orange County to Weaver Street or wherever and try to run my business virtually from those locations. Sometimes 18 <br />our phone service has gone down for two weeks at a time. We do not have a backup internet service. I have to leave 19 <br />the house in order to conduct my business. That has been remedied by the fact that I have office space in 20 <br />Hillsborough but as a small business owner, the overhead is quite significant. I have looked at every which way to cut 21 <br />our home expenses, our phones, and I can’t. I have a child with a health condition, even though she is 21 years old, 22 <br />she is still my child and I still get calls from the emergency room so for safety reason, for small business infrastructure, 23 <br />for supporting economic development in the community I support this application. I also, as a person on a well water 24 <br />system, I understand concerns about ground water contamination so if there are ways that the residents can be 25 <br />assured that all kinds of safety precautions are taken to keep their water safe, I would appreciate that too. Thank you. 26 <br /> 27 <br />Michael Harvey: Next is Ms. Beverly Roberson. 28 <br /> 29 <br />Larry Wright: Ms. Robinson. She left. 30 <br /> 31 <br />Laura Lloyd: I have been duly sworn in. I live off Greensboro Road, less than a mile from where the tower will be. I 32 <br />have Verizon and I have fine service most of the time. I have a friend on Carl Durham Road who runs her business 33 <br />from her house and her office in town. She has all AT&T and she gets no service on Carl Durham Road which is a 34 <br />little further out from me. About a month ago, she had to come to my house to call 911 when she came home and 35 <br />found her home had been robbed so she could not even call 911 from there. When the last woman was talking about 36 <br />her daughter, my son is a mailman for a post office out of Timberlyne and has all White Cross; he has Verizon, like I 37 <br />do. He talks to me numerous times during the day and even with that, he is in very spotty areas. I know exactly where 38 <br />he is all the time. He also has a severe illness and is very lucky to be able to work the job he does so he needs to be 39 <br />able to call 911 too even though he is working out there but there are times in the heat and dust he has trouble 40 <br />breathing and I’m afraid he won’t be able to call 911. The other issue is the new fire department on Neville Road 41 <br />which is pretty directly across from the Yow’s property. Mrs. Yow was a Neville so it is Neville Road so what will 42 <br />happen with that 911 and anybody who has AT&T has a terrible time out there. I did see the balloon test. I did see 43 <br />the signs and of course I was very curious about it. I know the Yow’s. I had to go in town on Old Greensboro Road; I 44 <br />know where the Yow’s live. I had to totally turn my head away from looking at the road to be able to see that balloon. 45 <br />When you came out of town, you couldn’t see it at all. I didn’t go down Sesame Road that day. I know they will be 46 <br />able to see it, I know there is a large tree buffer and I’m sure it is… everybody wants it, they want the internet 47 <br />connection but they don’t want it in their back yard but I am totally in favor of this cell tower being built and we need 48 <br />more of them because this part of Orange County has terrible cell service. Thank you. 49 <br /> 50 <br />Michael Harvey: Last on my list is Maria Patino. 51
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