2014-07-03 Hearing Transcript - AT&T MobilityUSE 14-048

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HENKEL: I used to have EMF concerns, or I still do, but I don’t know if you Commissioners will remember last month, we had a representative from a different company, Verizon, here, an engineer. I asked him about it, and he pointed out that, that may have been true of the old analog towers, and most of these studies that you cite might be you know representative of the analog towers. The new towers they put in are digital. He pointed out that if you’re standing next to a tower with your cell phone, that your cell phone is giving you more radiation than the tower is emitting. And it seemed incredible to me, so that’s, that would be my response to you know your concerns at this time. BATTAGLIA (from audience): Well, I have a proposal. Can I make a statement then? Do you— MIYASATO: Excuse me, the public testimony is done. BATTAGLIA (from audience): Okay. ONO: Mr. Chair? MIYASATO: Commissioner Ono. ONO: I just want to make a comment that it’s not that we’re not ignoring the individual that just testified, but we’ve had this kind of a testimony earlier so whatever action we take is not without your input, but I don’t want you to feel that you know, our minds were already made up, and therefore, you, no sense being here, so, thank you. MIYASATO: Commissioner Henkel. HENKEL: Yeah, one, one more point. I mean, I sympathize with you, and I do wish that the cell providers with all the rural land that we have would you know choose their sites a little more distant from populations, it’s kind of quandary that, you know, most everybody uses cell phones, and most everybody wants cell phone reception, but you know, they don’t want the towers near them. MIYASATO: Staff. DARROW: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, if I could interject with a few proposed condition changes just to address some of the issues that were brought up through the discussion. One of them, Condition No. 2, because of the agreement that has been made with the community association for stealthing the tower, we wanted to make some reference to a monopole or a monopine or a monopalm, and so we wanted to do that under Condition2 where we would, we would say instead of construction of the proposed development, we would say construction of the proposed monopine/monopalm as proposed by the Applicant shall be completed within five years, so we’ll just make it clear that this is going to be a shielded tower. Additionally, there was concerns regarding the open permit. We have a standard condition that we can add. We can add that as a new Condition 4 that would say prior to the issuance of Final 7 EXHIBIT D