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SPRINGER:Commissioner Watanabe, there€s some guidance, perhaps, that <br />Mr. Torigoe can offer us right now as far as us testifying as experts. <br />TORIGOE:Yeah, I would recommend against your, you know, providing what is <br />essentially testimony on a contested case matter. <br />DARROW:If I may address the question? <br />SPRINGER:Mr. Darrow. <br />DARROW:The Planning Director, when we look at requests for telecommunication <br />towers, his main objective in the beginning of the application is to request whether or not the <br />applicant has taken steps to co-locate on existing towers. If there are no options available, then <br />at that point we€ll proceed with the special permit. In the special permit application, we always <br />trytorecommendco-locationofothertowerstobeabletolocateonthis. <br />Irecallintheapplicationthattheapplicantstatedthat,Ibelieve,thattherewouldberoomfor <br />one co-location on this tower. But if we could also allow the applicant to go into more detail <br />regarding co-location. I believe that€s what you€re asking, is that correct? <br />SIRCUSA:Yes. And then there€s the follow up one which was d) on this, <br />Mr. Lipinski€s communication, that I€d also like to know if this is accurate, if a community <br />permits a cell tower within its geographical area, it is legally bound to allow competitive service <br />providers the right to install their towers as well? So would that mean that we would end up <br />having a plethora of towers within every single community once we give a permit to one? <br />DARROW:Yeah, it€s -. Oh, I€m going to defer that to the Panning Director. <br />SPRINGER:Mr. Yuen. <br />YUEN:A body like a Planning Commission can reject cell towers for reasons <br />unrelated to health of safety. For example, you can reject a cell tower in a particular location <br />because of its aesthetic effect. You cannot discriminate among providers. What that means is <br />that you can€t say, well, I like Verizon and I don€t like Cingular. So, and that€s the only sense in <br />which you allow one you have to allow others. You can, if you allow one and somebody else <br />comes in with a cell tower in a location that has a much worse visual effect, you can reject the <br />second application. But you can€t do it on the basis of, well, we let one company in and that€s <br />good enough, we don€t want to have more companies in here. <br />SIRACUSA:I see. Thank you for clarifying that. <br />SPRINGER:Jeff, perhaps I didn€t go and pick up materials that might have come in <br />subsequent to when I did picked up my packets, but I don€t have the record of the request for <br />standing. <br />DARROW:If it€s okay with you, I can bring you a copy of it. <br />3EXHIBIT E <br /> <br />