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Approved 9/10/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 20 of 82 1 Gary Dixon: She speaks Spanish. Maria simply wanted to say that she has AT&T service, she lives on Sesame Road 2 and she is on our memorandum. She is one of our petitioners that live in the community off Sesame. She does have 3 five lines of AT&T service and she has fine signal there. 4 5 Maria Patino: I have five lines from AT&T… I-phone 4 and I-phone 5. I have had it maybe seven years. 6 7 Michael Harvey: That concludes the list of individuals that have signed up. 8 9 Liz Hill: I am Liz Hill with American Tower. There were concerns raised about the environmental safety of the 10 generator. The generator will be owned by American Tower. It is a shared generator so AT&T will be on it and 11 someone else can share it as well. We will comply with whatever the regulations are. Local regulations, state 12 regulations, we will comply. These are monitored 24 hours a day remotely. Actually our national network operating 13 center is located in Cary so that is where it will be located in addition to the regular visits. Every time our site 14 supervisors go to a site for whatever reason, they check everything at the site and one of those things will be the 15 generator because it is an American Tower owned asset. Whatever the environmental regulations are, we will comply 16 with them. We own a couple thousand of these across the country and have not had any issues with leakage but 17 whatever the environmental regulations, we will comply. 18 19 Larry Wright: In the event of a power failure, can you remotely monitor? 20 21 Liz Hill: Yes. 22 23 Larry Wright: What agents are in there that would be a potential hazard to the environment? 24 25 Liz Hill: They are diesel generators so they are your standard generators but unlike the ones I think of as a generator 26 where you have the round tank. These are self-contained so it is rectangular. It has the diesel and the generator in 27 one unit so it is a little more compact. Diesel is the only thing I could think of that would have a leakage and diesel 28 generators have been deployed for years. 29 30 Larry Wright: Is it oil? 31 32 Liz Hill: It is just diesel fuel. That is all it is. Other than that, it is a standard generator. It is a Generac generator. A 33 standard generator with diesel fuel that a lot of people are installing at their homes simply a little larger to 34 accommodate commercial carriers. 35 36 Larry Wright: Do you have any other rebuttals. 37 38 Karen Kemerait: No. I would like a few minutes to sum up the evidence. AT&T had been approached by residents, 39 businesses, and the Chamber of Commerce asking for better coverage in the area and AT&T has agreed to provide a 40 significant investment in Orange County and the efforts they are making will lead to a better quality of life, a better 41 general well-being and also better safety for the residents and also AT&T and American Towers assistance with 42 economic development efforts within Orange County. The propagation maps shows the coverage will be greatly 43 improved based upon this one tower location site and then also, as I have shown with the most recent propagation 44 maps, AT&T is intending to provide significantly better coverage within Orange County. Regarding the parcel that has 45 been selected, Mr. & Mrs. Yow’s property, which are here tonight, it is an excellent parcel for the telecommunications 46 tower. It will provide coverage where coverage is needed along Old Greensboro and Jones Ferry Roads and also it is 47 a large 28 acre piece of property and I think it is unusual to find such a large site for telecommunications towers in 48 today’s time. The site is used for cattle farming. Mr. & Mrs. Yow have agreed to the conservation easement to ensure 49 the vast majority of trees will be preserved. What we have not focused on tonight because I believe that evidence is 50 undisputed is that we have met all the specific and technical requirements of the ordinance. We have also talked in a 51