2020-09-21 Leeward Exh B (USE 20-000083)

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KAY: Okay. On the left-hand side, or let me show you on the right-hand side very quickly, this is the rough location of the existing and proposed tower here, again, mauka of the Hawaii Belt Road. On the left-hand side you'll see what the coverage would be without the proposed tower. The purple, the white area is no coverage, the purple area shows poor, and the yellow area shows good, and green would indicate excellent. With the proposed tower, you'll see most of the area is, is in that green color. So, I think that the point that I want to make here is the, the idea that there's enough coverage as it is right now is true, because there's an existing tower there; if that tower was to have to be demolished because of its structural deficiencies, and nothing replaced it, then there would be, it appears there would be a gap in coverage. I just wanted to bring that point up. CARR SMITH: Thank you. Commissioner Faye, go ahead. YATES: Okay, can you hear me now? KAY: Yes. CARR SMITH: Yes, we can. YATES: Okay. Okay, thank you. I'm just wanting to make sure that I understood. This new tower that's coming in is not replacing the old tower. It's a totally different tower. KAY: This new tower will be replacing the existing tower. So the existing tower's been there since 1963. It's at a point where structurally it's unsafe, as I understand it. So, the applicant is proposing to build the new tower first, move all of the service providers' antennas over, and then demolish the existing tower. It's on the same property, about 30 feet to the northwest of the existing tower. YATES: Okay, so the tower that is there now will be taken away, and it will be replaced with the tower that they're proposing now. KAY: Yes, at the end of the day that's how it will work. The new tower will be built first so that there's no interruption in cell coverage, or the emergency 911 system that the existing tower supports. Once the antennas are moved over and the new tower's operational, the applicant has represented that they will demolish the tower, and there is a condition of approval that requires the demolition of that tower within six months of the beginning of operation of the new tower. YATES: So, so in other words, if you don't have this new tower, and they took down the old tower, we'd have no cell coverages or any of that kind of coverage. KAY: At least, yeah, at least with what the applicant supplied us in terms of the Verizon Wireless coverage comparison, it appears as though there would be a gap in coverage in the Kealakelcua area, yeah. YATES: So, is this for Verizon? 12 EXHIBIT B