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NISHIMOTO: Okay, and can you—if everyone can take a look at Exhibit G, Exhibits G and H,
<br />Verizon’s Exhibits G and H. Can you explain to everyone what these represent?
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<br />SHAFFER: Yeah, so Exhibit G is basically the coverage existing today. This is one of these
<br />propagation studies that I mentioned, and this is a computer simulation. So, all these little dots
<br />you see with different pie shapes coming out of them, those are our existing towers. So, you can
<br />see the signal. Typically, when it gets down into the green and blue, the signal is very poor to
<br />non-usable. So, you can see that the, you know the center to western part of the neighborhood is
<br />the, is the part that needs the most improvement, and that, you can see the proposed Ainaloa
<br />tower right in the middle of that neighborhood to try to capture all that area with a single tower.
<br />If we were to go too far northeast, or to far southwest, we can’t basically pick up the whole
<br />neighborhood, and it would require us to build more than one tower. So, if you look at
<br />Exhibit H, this is basically the proposed coverage with the Ainaloa cell site. And you can see
<br />that it eliminates a lot of the blue coverage and almost all the green coverage as well, which are
<br />the poor coverage areas.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Okay, and just in—very concisely—can you just explain why the subject site
<br />was the most optimal?
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<br />SHAFFER: Yeah, basically, because there, as you drive up Ainaloa Boulevard, you’ll notice
<br />that it, it peaks right before this area. So, basically because of the topology and the ridgelines in
<br />the area, if, as I had mentioned several times, if we went too far east, we’d have to build a tower
<br />for the east part of the neighborhood and a tower for the west. We’d much prefer to build one
<br />tower in the middle so there’s a pretty limited—probably four or five streets worth—that, that
<br />ridgeline takes up where we’d accept any property in that, that area. And we did, we did approve
<br />several prop—two properties in that area that fell through for other reasons, so--.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Okay, and lastly, I just want to take a look at Exhibit C, Verizon’s Exhibit C.
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<br />MARTIN: T?
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<br />NISHIMOTO: C as in “cat.” Is that a current and accurate depiction of the surrounding area?
<br />The immediate surrounding area of the proposed property?
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<br />SHAFFER: Yeah, looks correct. We saw it today, and it looks just like this I’d say.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: And a lot of times people don’t want telephone poles, utility lines, electrical lines
<br />in their line of sight, but we have them anyway because of the tradeoff that, and benefits they
<br />provide. The area is already as the pictures depict, filled with these. Correct?
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<br />SHAFFER: Correct.
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<br />NISHIMOTO: Okay, is there anything else you’d like to add?
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