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to turn the photo so audience members can see it. Mr. Satarawala then explained the differences between the north and south sites. He said to address the 190 foot issue, they only need the 150 feet and if that is a recommendation of the board, they can approach O.D.O.T. and say they are at the max at 150 and they can build a stackable tower. With a stackable tower, if 911 or the mark system needs the additional height, they can add a chimney cap to the top of the tower and go to 175 or 180 feet. He said they would be more than happy to cap the tower at 150. Mr. Koeth asked how much Cinb lar is paying for this. Mr. Satarawala said he believes the lease with O.D.O.T. is $22,000 a year and then they get an increase of 31/2% every year for 20 years. He said per Mr. Cheek's letter, the money that goes to the state goes directly to road improvements. They also provide free collocation to the state per their master lease agreement. He said the reason the state asked them to go through the City of North Olmsted on this, as they did with T-Mobile, is addressed by Mr. Cheek in his l-etter. He then read from the letter (see attached). Mr. Satarawala said that Mr. Cheek is saying that basically on O.D.O.T. land, O.D.O.T. could give them a building permit and a zoning permit. He said that Mr. Conway and Mr. Cheek spoke last week and Mr. Cheek explained that the state would like the city to benefit from the permit fees for the zoning and building and any Architectural Review Board fees required. That is why they were asked to go through the city. They could get a blanket zoning exemption and a building permit from the state. 1VIr. Spalding asked if the two proposals in Olmsted Township were along the high line, the illuminating company high line. Mr. Satarawala said that was correct. Mr. Spalding asked if they examined the location of the high line at Lorain Road or in that area, and if so what was the problem there. Mr. Satarawala said Mr. Kovitch did point out at the last meeting that on the First Energy pole near Rodger's Towing, there are coverage gaps to the northwest off Lorain and they could only insert about 10 feet above the highest point of the tower so they could only be at 120 feet. At that distance, Mr. Kovitch said in his report there would be coverage problems. He said if they went with the First Energy tower there would be a 1/4-mile gap to the north of the system and they will be spending about $250,000 to build the site. Cingular has asked them to maximize the usage of their funds to provide coverage to its customers. It just doesn't meet the coverage objectives at all. He referred to the propagation map and said it is appropriate, and factual. He said he would have preferred that the other site be used but they turned in the information as candidate one and two, and they were told none of them would work for Cingular and there was no need to waste the money. Mr. Hreha said he understands that some of the technological aspects are that Cingular is in the third or fourth position on other towers. He believes the board's job is to provide the residents access to technology, not necessarily to any singular provider. He said he is guessing the reason they have a lower position on the towers is that Cingular entered the market place late. He said he understands the owner of a tower will have the first position but if they had come in earlier they could have rented the second spot. He said they do not have to subject our residents to this simply because Cingular perhaps made a marketing error. Mr. Satarawala said that as soon as Cingular entered the market they tried to make the pattern work. The pattern just does not exist. He said he would like to ask Mr. O'Malley to give his interpretation of city code. He said that per Dave Conway, they spoke on Thursday afternoon, he basically asked the commission to pass this through to the Architectural Review Board because he said, "if you do not like the city code as to cell tower placement on any highway property, then the objective of this commission is to change that code." Mr. Satarawala said he is here under the existing code and he would ask Mr. O'Malley for his interpretation. Mr. Hreha pointed out that the Commission does not change the code. That is council's responsibility. Mr. Koeth said as he looks at the site map, they are talking about not having coverage to the north. He said Cingular asked for two coverages to the south. He asked if it is correct that the engineer indicated that would not work. Mr. Satarawala said that is correct. Mr. Koeth said then why not take it up where the right of way keeps on going. He suggested taking it 1/2 way up and then they are a 1/4 of a mile away from the intersection. Mr. Satarawala said the engineer only has a 1/2-mile radius to work with. Anything a 1/4-mile north of the intersection and anything a 1/4-mile south of that will not work. Mr. Koeth said he would like a report from the engineer. Mr. Satarawala referred to the photo rendering of the coverage area. Mrs. Hoff-Smith said that rendering 6