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Approved 9/10/2013 OC Board of Adjustment – 7/8/2013 Page 78 of 82 SECTION 5.3.2 (A) Special Uses – General Standards ("Yes" indicates compliance; "No" indicates non-compliance) 1 2 Ordinance Requirements PLANNING STAFF RECOMMENDED FINDINGS EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO SUPPORT FINDINGS BOA FINDINGS Section 5.3.2 (A) (2) (b) The use will maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property (unless the use is a public necessity, in which case the use need not maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property). Will _Will Not Staff will remind the Board there is the following information available, as submitted by the applicant, related to addressing this requirement: • The application package and project narrative contained within Tab 3 of the application booklet. • Tab 39 of the application booklet contains an impact analysis, completed by David Smith, indicating the project will not impact the value of adjacent property. • Tab 6 of the application booklet contains a site plan denoting the projects compliance with the UDO. x Will _Will Not 3 Larry Wright: What is the board’s pleasure? 4 5 MOTION made by David Blankfard to find in favor that the use will maintain or enhance the value of the contiguous 6 proprieties based on findings of the Impact Analysis prepared by David A. Smith, MAISRA (appraiser). 7 8 Mark Micol added that the use is necessary and in the public’s best interest with regard to enhanced emergency 9 communications with cell and internet services. 10 11 Samantha Cabe added that the basis for such finding that the record is absent of any component evidence that 12 sufficiently rebuts Mr. Smith’s report as to any negative impact on the values of the contiguous properties. 13 14 Motion Seconded by Mark Micol. 15 16 Samantha Cabe: I want to make a comment about this particular area because I know that I have heard and I can 17 appreciate because I grew up in a rural area and I appreciate all of your concerns about well water and how things 18 look and the aesthetics in the area and I can’t help but notice that in American Tower’s photograph that Mr. Dixon 19 attached as photograph 2 that what sticks out to me as more of an impact of the visual of this area are the telephone 20 lines, the power lines that we are all used to that if we were back in the 1950s or 1940s those would be sore thumbs 21 and the fact that we now have powers that are not connected by lines is just more of the same but different and I think 22 it is an unfortunate growing pain but we are all going to be having these in our backyards just as we all have these 23 power poles with lines that go across the road in every neighborhood, in every state, in every county of this country 24 and I want to make that observation on the record. 25 26