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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes October 11, 2022 This is existing coverage,but the tower is being moved further to the north and it provides better coverage between the twoexisting sites. He said the one to the left, the W and ends in 483R3and the one up near Enochville, thatis what we are trying to cover more. You can see what the difference is, the red and the white is not what you want. You want at least yellow and some of the light blue and the green (showed a diagram). This is current coverage, when this shifts,you can see how the coverage improves to the north and tothe northeast as well as some to the northwest as well.So, that iswhatthedifferencein coverageis,going back and forth as you can see. Because of the rural nature of the area,weneed the height in order to get there. There are some challenges to hereas was mentionedearlier. There is the critical watershed wherewe cannot put a tower, therefore you haveto have ataller tower to be able to cover thecriticalwatershed area as well. He has the RF Engineerwho can come talk about this further ifyou have further questions. As you can see this is current and with the new one you eliminate a lot of that redin between the site tothe northeastas well as properti He showed an aerial of the site. He said there is an existing driveway right here. It is being used and will have to be widened to meet fire requirements to 26 feet. But then basically the tower is going to be down here in the open field here. This is the site plan that more specifically shows that. We have a hammer head turn around herefor the fire department. This is the compound and the tower right here and these are theexisting buildings that the property owner has on site. Ms. Howell spoke to the watershed issue. He wanted to show this a little bit. This is basically the watershed line right here. This is the 235-footradius which if the tower fell flat as a pancake,it still will not touchthecritical watershed line. The 285-foot would be here,but that is a setback. Under the ordinance,the setbackrequirementis from a property line or a residential structure which this meets. Even though it may go into the critical watershed line,the ordinance does not speak to it being from thewatershed lineit is just the property line or residential uses. Wealso havea fall zone letter bySabreTowerwho would construct the tower, in the file that says really in any event,thetower would not fall outside of a 90-footradiuseven if it were to fail. Even if you take the most generous at 235-feet, if it fell flat,itstill is not going to get into the critical watershedand all the commercialcomponents are outside the watershed. This is the profile of the tower.It has thecurrent proposed userwhichwill beAT&T,plusroom forfuture co-locaters on the siteand there is plenty of room with in the compound to accommodate those additional users in the future. He is available to answer any questions on that part,but he would like for Mr. Berkowitz to come up and summarize his impact study just briefly. Mr. Michael Berkowitz, 1100SundanceDrive,Concord,NC,Appraiser, addressed the Board statinggiventhe impact study he was asked to determine in accordance with the special use 20