2014-06-05HEARINGTRANSCRIPT-CELLCODBAVERIZONUSE14-046

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So, it used to be that the Zoning Code was more restrictive. The Code now since it’s been amended is more restrictive than our Zoning Code. NISHIMOTO: In your opinion, would it be more likely for trees and other utility poles to fall in the event of a natural disaster? MARTIN: You know, I don’t, I can’t say that for sure, but what I can say is that this tower will be designed for 105 miles an hour—probably more because we provide for co-location and so they beef it up a little bit more, and I can tell you that at a 105 miles an hour, it’s not going to just be the tower. It is going to be, most probably I think would be the antennas or the branches that actually might come off first. I don’t, I don’t see that the tower is really going to ever fall over, but at that point, when you have a hurricane that’s gonna be that big, and you know, that big of winds, sustained winds like that, you’re gonna have not just that flying around, but you’re probably going to have the neighbor’s house, and a lot of other things flying around, and so I just think that it’s, you know, would be a double standard to say that a cell phone tower that meets a 105 mile an hour can’t have any damage to it after they complied with Code and then, and then have the house next door’s roof fly over, you know? Just my personal opinion. NISHIMOTO: In your 20 years of experience, have you ever been aware of a Verizon monopine tower falling in the State of Hawai‘i? MARTIN: No. NISHIMOTO: Okay, I’d like to direct everyone Exhibits E and F, Verizon’s Exhibits E and F. One of Mr. Inaba’s concerns is that his property is located in, within the tower’s, the proposed tower’s fall radius. Can you explain a little bit more about what Exhibit E represents? MARTIN: Yes, I prepared this Exhibit actually using the County’s Real Property Tax GIS system. So, you’ll see the outline of Mr. Inaba’s tower, property, sorry. You’ll see that he’s got his, where his, the outline of his property is, and then also I took coordinates. We had a surveyor. We have to provide survey coordinates to the FCC for regulation purposes, so I had that information, and I searched that and used that pinpoint and measured on the Google from the center of the tower, to a 105 feet or approximately a 100 to 105 feet. It’s not really that exact. I’m not all that good at Google but anyways, it’s approximate, too, and it didn’t, didn’t seem like it even crossed the road. So, it’s—it’s well away from Mr. Inaba’s property. NISHIMOTO: Okay, and then what about Exhibit F? Can you explain what that is? MARTIN: Yes, we actually tried to, we actually looked around at the existing residences there and tried to figure the closest area there and to see if it was in a fall radius of an existing house. NISHIMOTO: And is it within the fall radius of any structure or residence? MARTIN: No. 15 EXHIBIT F