2015-11-05 Hearing Transcript - Cellco Partnership dba Verizon USE 15-055

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MCGUIRE: My name is John McGuire, and I— MIYASATO: Use the mic, please. MCGUIRE: My name is John McGuire. I live at 18-4173 Komo Street. MIYASATO: Just a quick note, yeah, you have three minutes. MCGUIRE: Yeah, I basically said what I said, but I think that the County should address Section 4-6 of your guys’ laws, you know, before any of this is done. The property needs to be flood free again. MIYASATO: Okay, thank you. Mr. Oguss? Dr. Oguss? OGUSS: Yes. MIYASATO: You have three minutes. Please state your name and residence. OGUSS: Dr. Carl Frederick Oguss. My primary residence is 121 Banyan Drive. I am interested for two reasons. One is, there is another application from Verizon for the Fern Forest area, and I have 271 acres immediately adjacent to that location, and I wanted to come to this meeting to get a feeling for what the process was going to be like, what the meetings were going to be like. In addition, my background is—I’m a psychologist, and my field was doing research in moral development, and I can say two things. The more open this process is, the better it’s going to be received by the community. Attempts to, for instance, challenge standing on the basis of a formality of filing date is an attempt to find an excuse not to listen to a member of the community. Whether he lives adjacent or whether he lives nearby shouldn’t really much matter. The process should be very open to everyone who feels that they may be directly affected by these towers. The effects are deemed to be safe under Federal standards, but you really need to look into this issue. The rest of the world does not take the same position on cell phone towers that the United States and the UK does. There have been landmark lawsuits in Germany, France, Italy, and India so far proving after years of legal battle, that there have been long-term, very serious negative effects. I don’t say this lightly. I actually started looking into the research with the assumption that it’s probably safe. And my only concern might be public perception, because even things that seem safe like GMO’s may be perceived to be unsafe and that affects the market value of those products. Well, my 271 acres is zoned Ag-3. There’s a tremendous of value there. The Fern Forest community is a very large community. A lot of people own property there that’s their primary investment. The perceived value of those properties when a large cell phone tower goes in that is highly visible is a real issue. And, beyond that, there are aesthetic issues. People just not wanting the area to look so industrial. 10 EXHIBIT E