2014-03-06HEARINGTRANSCRIPT-CELLCO DBA VERIZON USE 14-046

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The Planning Director is recommending that the Planning Commission approve this request with conditions. I do have a few bits of information I need to bring to the Commission’s attention regarding this application. We have received several letters since the Background and Recommendation was submitted to the Planning Commission. One is a letter dated January 31, 2014, from Dayne and Shari Shinsato. This is a, an opposition letter that you should have all received, and we’ve also received a comment letter from the Department of Public Works dated rd February 3, 2014. There is one correction I need to make on the record. Unfortunately, some times, we cut and paste and we miss something. This would be on Page 4 of the Recommendation. On the, in the second paragraph, 1-2-3-4, line number 5, it says the tower site is located on a small portion of a 5.371 acre property. If that line can be deleted. The property is 8,100 square feet which is identified at the lower portion of the page. And then lastly, the Planning Department has received a Petition for Standing in a Contested th Case from Daryl Inaba. This was received on February 28, Friday. There is a question whether or not the request is considered timely. In our Planning Commission rules, Rule 4-6, 4-6a, it says that the petition needs to be submitted prior, before seven days before the Planning Commission’s first hearing on the matter. So, when we look at it being submitted on Friday, we’ll count Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the date of the hearing would be the seventh day, so it’s going to be up to the discretion of the Planning Commission to consider standing in this regards. They did submit the $200 filing fee, so other than that, everything’s in order with the petition. With that, that concludes our presentation. Are there any questions? GONZALES: Questions for staff? DARROW: Thank you. GONZALES: Thanks Jeffrey. I’d like to call up the applicant, please. Good morning. MARTIN: Good morning. GONZALES: Can you raise your right hand, please? MARTIN: Yes. GONZALES: Do you swear to tell the truth before the Windward Planning Commission today? MARTIN: Yes, I do. GONZALES: Thank you, go ahead. MARTIN: My name is Danette Martin. I work as a consultant with Verizon Wireless, and I was tasked with trying to locate this tower, and I realize from the comments that people, you know, that you made with the previous application, that there’s some concern about the siting for this one, and I wanted to answer your question more directly on how far do these towers really go. Well, when we first started back in the analog days, they were, they went 20 miles. And then, 3 EXHIBIT B