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<br />we came up with the, you know, PCS, and those would go five miles in circumference. And
<br />now, with the new wireless broadband, they only go one mile. So, that’s, that’s the really
<br />difficult part in trying to site these things. It’s that you’ve got an existing coverage area here and
<br />here, and you’ve got, you know, we kind of laugh when the RF engineer gives us his
<br />specifications because they used to be called search rings. Now we call them search dots
<br />because they’re so small. So, when I first got this search ring, for this Ainaloa area, I was told
<br />that the Ainaloa Community Association had a pole there, a flag pole, and that would have been
<br />the perfect thing to co-locate on. That’s the first thing that we do, is try to co-locate on existing
<br />structures. But the RF engineer said no, that’s too far away. So, don’t even consider that one.
<br />So, we went, a--I first went to Ainaloa Community Association. We tried to start with the
<br />community first in our siting, and they referred me to some areas in their subdivision. They
<br />have, I don’t know, if you go back to maybe the map, you’d see that there are large squares
<br />where it would indicate that maybe there are larger parcels there. Well, those are set aside by the
<br />homeowner’s association or the developer for the homeowner’s association for future parks.
<br />And so, they thought, well that would be perfect. Why don’t you put it someplace there because
<br />we really, really need the service. So, we tried that, and we actually got the go ahead from
<br />Verizon Wireless to do that. I pulled the title report, and I see that there is an obstruction on that
<br />parcel, that they can’t, that this company paid Ainaloa Community Association a sum of money
<br />to purchase the, the rights for telecommunication on that tower that’s at their, at their community
<br />center. What they didn’t realize is that they were also signing away rights to all their other
<br />property. So, when we went to them, they said, well, you know, we’re going to charge you, you
<br />know, we’ll let you do it, but we’re going to charge you this huge amount of money. Went back
<br />to Verizon Wireless, and they said that’s extortion, no. You can’t do that. So, I looked around.
<br />I called all the large property owners in the area. I tried to get in touch with them. Some I could
<br />not get in touch with, but I did try. And, so that left with me tasked with just trying to find
<br />something with what was existing. And so if you look back on that, that tax map, you’ll see that
<br />there are miles and miles of small lots. So if we’re not able to place it on a small lot, these
<br />people won’t get the coverage that they need.
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<br />GONZALES: Any questions for the applicant? Mr. Ono.
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<br />ONO: Yes, over the years again, when these requests came in, I was looking at the distance and
<br />the single pole, but if you’re saying a one, one mile distance between Pole A and Pole B—
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<br />MARTIN: --right, oh, no, no, I’m saying a circumference, so figure two miles maybe—
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<br />ONO: Ok—
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<br />MARTIN: --because you’ve got one mile from this way and one mile from that way so—
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<br />ONO: --Ok, oh, I see what you’re saying—
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<br />MARTIN: Yeah.
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<br />ONO: Ok--I guess every request that came in had the objection of the so-called radiation
<br />whatever—
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