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two purposes. The first is to read a letter into the record from a resident on his street. The letter is from William E. Becka. The board members indicated they received a copy and Mr. O'Grady commented it can be considered part of the record (see attached letter). He pointed out that Mr. Becka's letter is in opposition to the proposed site because of the negative impact on the residents. Mr. O'Grady said that Mr. Satarawala came in, in a tough position, and spoke of the benefits of the tower, at least to the Cingular corporation. He said Mr. Satarawala made the point that Cingular is not his company. He said two weeks ago when the board and residents met there were representatives of Cingular present. He asked if there were any representatives of Cingular present tonight. There was no response. He said at the previous meeting, the board asked if Cingular could return with a representative from O.D.O.T. He said they are losing ground. He is profoundly disappointed that the Cingular company thinks it is good business practice to inconvenience this number of people, and to inconvenience this board, by coming back without O.D.O.T. and without the courtesy of a representative from their own company. He added that IV1r. Satarawala pointed out that this board and this city had approved a tower at the Clague and I-480 interchange. He said the Stearns and I-480 interchange is not Clague Road. It is a different interchange and if you take a look at them, we do not have four different housing groups living in close proximity to that interchange. He said Mr. Satarawala pointed out that according to the letter of the law, O.D.O.T. is within their rights, and Cingular is as well, to establish this tower in this location, and that is absolutely correct. However, there is not just the letter of the law, there is the intent. He said Mr. Satarawala commented that he did not write our code. Mr. O'Grady indicated he did. He attended meetings, he studied the Federal Telecommunications Act. He suggested having a local expert come in to help the city craft a plan that would protect our residents. The intent of our code is to regulate telecommunicatians towers, not restrict them. They selected locations that would have a minimal impact on surrounding residents. They also put in I-480 because quite frankly, as has been pointed out quite correctly by our legal counsel Mr. O'Malley, we did not have the right to restrict them. Interstate 480 belongs to the Ohio Department of Transportation and we do not have the right to say no to them. However, for someone to come in here and say the Ohio Department of Transportation doesn't care about the impact on the residents of the City of North Olmsted, is a misstatement. He thinks for that reason, as they said two weeks ago, they need to have representatives from O.D.O.T. here to listen to this commission and to listen to the residents and hear their concerns. The intent of our code was to encourage collocation yet every time a different telecommunications provider comes to this city, they come with reasons why they cannot possibly collocate. He said as a member of city council in the past, and as the president now, he has sat through and listened to the membership state they are getting tired of that story, that it is absolutely impossible to collocate and they need a new tower. Further, the intent of our code was to minimize the impact on the residents of our city. This location is a bad location and for two weeks Cingular did not listen to the commission and they did not listen to the comments that were made by the residents. They came back with a new person that is not an employee of their company to tell us the same story without any other possible alternatives and that is unfortunate. He said if you were to go to that location and stand in the infield, you will see a lot of trees, and you might think it's not too bad a location but that is at about 6 feet of height. If you go up about 10 feet, you see all the homes on Hastings Drive, and you see the homes down Stearns Road. You would see the first 3 homes on the east side and 5-8 homes on the west side. If you go up to 30 feet, you start to see the homes on Soinerset, and the homes on Stafford. This is a bad idea for Cingular, it's a bad idea for O.D.O.T., and it's a bad idea for the residents of this city. They have to start looking for other locations. North of the interstate, south of the interstate, to him it does not matter. It's a bad idea. If they have to go and put a tower to the south and share there and go to the north and share there in Westlake, then that's what they have to do. T'hey should do that rather than impact this significant number of residents in such a direct and profound way. He thanked the commission for its efforts and diligence. He told Mr. Satarawala he is disappointed with Cingular and he hopes that message gets back to them. He thanked Mr. Satarawala and said he knows he walked into a tough position. Mr. Hreha indicated he would like to add a comment. He said since the audience participation did not happen until after they took their 10