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Mr. Fischer? Seeing no other questions and you gave us your side of it, so you may have a seat. And we’re
<br />going to get the applicant to come up and they’re going to -.
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<br />FISCHER: Thank you.
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<br />KERN: Share their side of it and then we’ll get to either granting standing or not. Okay?
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<br />FISCHER: Okay, very good.
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<br />KERN: Thanks. You’re sworn in, good to go. Would you like to make any comment based on this?
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<br />SUNG: Yeah. And, I guess, as far as concerns about the safety issues and what have you, maybe I’ll just
<br />answer -.
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<br />KERN: He’s come up and gave us his side for standing. And so we’re now considering whether to grant
<br />standing or whether to not. So as you being the applicant, him being the intervenor and you being the applicant,
<br />we’re just giving you a fair shot to interject in anyway.
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<br />SUNG: Okay, fair enough. And I think the main thing is as you’ve heard from the testimony from the other
<br />residents there is a need for coverage at Leilani Estates. We’re not just putting a cell tower anywhere we want.
<br />You know, we don’t just, Verizon does not have so much money they just want to blow at any, you know, just
<br />put up a cell tower anywhere. There is a need. We have not complaint but rather concern from our subscribers
<br />that, you know, they want a cell tower there.
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<br />As far as the location of this cell tower, you know, we have gone through, as I explained before, having a mutual
<br />location, a community center. Other than the community center it’s all residential pretty much. You know,
<br />even if they’re zoned agricultural, they’re all residential lots. So having a mutual location, having the rent go to
<br />the community is the right thing to do.
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<br />KERN: Okay, I’m going to stop you there because you’re more so giving your case on what you guys want to
<br />do. If you’d like you have the option to basically give your side or your points of why he may not have standing
<br />for a contested case. And with that, I’ll let Julie clarify that.
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<br />MECKLENBURG: So we’re considering the petition for standing; and I’m not sure if you’ve received all the
<br />materials. I believe you probably have. But it’s on the basis as you’ve heard of safety issues, property
<br />devaluation and aesthetic concerns and health concerns. So if you’d like to respond to any of those -.
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<br />SUNG: Certainly. As far as health concerns, you know, once again we’re regulated by FCC guidelines. We’re
<br />well within our, our radiation output is well within the FCC guidelines. So there’s no known studies that says
<br />cell towers causes cancer or any other health risks. You know, we are basically following what is required as far
<br />as following the FCC guidelines, once again. But as far as safety issues, you know, once again, the tower is 150
<br />feet tall. When it falls usually I think most of the towers nowadays is designed to collapse straight down
<br />because they have sections. And that’s how they’re built that way.
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<br />Now even if it falls flat, and once again I have never in my ten years of doing this, I have never heard of a cell
<br />tower collapsing. I don’t know if you’ve heard of one. But if it does collapse one way or another, we’re talking
<br />about 150-foot down; and we’re talking about the antennas going another 100 feet. You know, I think what
<br />Mr. Fischer’s concern is, I just don’t see the antennas or anything else that would hit 150 or 100 feet further
<br />down. So as far as that safety issue goes, they’re, you know, the way we build cell towers, I have never heard of
<br />cell towers that fall straight down, period. So unless somebody can show me a case, you know, please do so.
<br />But otherwise I have never heard of one, even with, you know, even with Katrina, with Katrina in New Orleans.
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