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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes October 11, 2022 need for the new wireless support structure, including propagation maps and telecommunication traffic studies. He said the applicant has tendered some of thatinformation voluntarily and he would not begrudge them that, but he would caution the Board about soliciting information like thator considering the answers or non-answersregarding those business aspects of their decision making.The Statute urges you to confine your analysis to thepublic safety implications, the aesthetics,and thetraditional zoning issues youwouldhave withcompatibility of uses and what not. Mr. Patterson said in terms of considering the evidence that the Commission has before it. He understands this is a quasi-judicial hearing, but if we were in court, once you open the door to the evidence, it is out there. So, sforth the coverage, they put forthall of this informationfor the Commission to consider, he thinks it is fair for the Commission to ask questionsregarding it. In terms of asking questions, one question would be the coverage,in terms of,this isthecurrent coverage for that particular pole. But there has been nothing presented to this Commission in terms of the coverage on the pole that they currently haveandifthere hasbeen any studyon if they went higher,what type of coverage they would receive. Mr.Goldberg thinks the point is taken on that, in that he is right, there has been evidence proffered in support of their application that may cross into those things,andhe would say that was voluntary. You have the ability to essentially cross examine that information. He thinks the boundarieshere would notbe urging orsoliciting information beyond what they have volunteered in that way. Thoughyou(the Board)dohave plenty of room to evaluate the credibility of thatinformationthat they have tendered so farthroughtheasking ofquestions. Mr. Johnsonsaid he wouldconcur with that. He said the propagation maps and what was spoken about dropped calls you can ask about, beyond that .The best example that he gives is if a restaurant decides that they want to locate at this intersection versus that one, it is a business decision. Likeyourzoning decisionsyou do, you dogo behindto see if that restaurant is going to be successful at that location. You do not lookever lookat that. You determine whether or not it fits with the zoning rules. You have a very extensive tower ordinance,and we have checked all of those boxes on the tower ordinance. You have a very competent staffto deal with that,and they havedealt with that and looked at checking those boxes.That is the point of the Statute and why it says what it says.That would be his point in that regard. He believes, and he knows this question was asked, and he has dealt with this in one other circumstance,where he has another competing tower company trying to comeinand create questions about a new tower that is being built.He questions the ability of them really having standing,to question that. In other words,do they even have a dog in the fight? The most dog in 35