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poles sitting at the stadium and they would be adding a 9t'. He said they also want to be 300 feet off the property lines on Burns Road. He said they would end up in the creek. It is not a good drawing as to where the creek goes. Mr. Spalding said they need to see an accurate drawing. Mr. Koeth said his only problem is that where Sprint wants to locate it, they need a variance for 15 feet and they are trying to squeeze it in because they don't have enough room. They will put an 8 foot fence around it. Mr. Conway interjected and said the landscaping buffer is to mute the affect of the facility. This facility is 300 feet from the property lines. It is within the purview of this Board to look at this and say the applicant has the 300 feet, therefore the they don't need as big a landscaping buffer. Mr. Koeth said his concern is they have the fences up and outside the fences will be the everareens. He believes it will be 3 foot arborvitae. That means where people will be walking in and leaving the stadium, you will have limited room and landscaping squeezed in there. He added it is tight in there now. The plants will be torn up and Sprint will be responsible for taking care of that. Mr. Hyland agreed the plants would get messed up. Mr. Koeth said on a good football night, the entire back parking lot is full and there's a good amount of traffic through there. Mr. Hyland said that would only be 5 nights a year. 1VIr. Hreh1 said that Mr. Hyland is trying to minimize the problem by saying 5 nights a year. He said Mr. Hyland made the point a while ago about where the most walking traffic comes from. He asked if Mr. Hyland's position with the School Board requires him to go to those 5 games a year. Mr. Hyland said it does not. Mr. Hreha asked if he has been to any games this year. Mr. Hyland said he has been to 1 game. Mr. Hreha said he has been to all the games and he parked on both sides and he disagreed with Mr. Hyland. He would say the traffic on the north and south side is almost even. Mr. Hyland said he is talking about traffic once people are in the stadium for the event. There is more traffic that goes north. The south traffic is from the band and the players as they leave. He said once people are in the complex most traffic ends up going from the stands north throughout the event. 1VIr. Hreha said that is not what he understood hiin to say before. He said now that Mr. Hyland has made himself more clear, he does not disagree in terms of traffic within the stadium during a game. He said he thought Mr. Hyland was referring to traffic coming into the stadium from the north lot versus the south parking lot. 1VIr. Hyland said his main concern about that complex is during an event how people get in and out. They want to minimize problems. His main concern with having something there is vandalism as people move around. Mr. Hreha said he does agree with his position now but he would like to add that during a game the amount of people moving north or south is vastly less than before the game or particularly right after the game. The amount of traffic around the proposed pole is going to be huge once a game is over. 1VIr. Koeth said that is the point the Board is trying to make. It is the Board of Education's decision as to where they want the pole to be, but the Commission's recommendation would be to put it on the other side of the ditch, as close to the ditch as possible, and away from the stadiuin, as opposed to where all the activity is. Mr. Spalding mentioned the area where the band assembles is an issue. Mr. Hyland said one solution for the band is to use portable stands. When the band is at the south end, they take up 1/3 of the seats. From a safety standpoint, the band can be relocated. They are looking to solve that. He said his personal feeling is that Sprint would probably love to put the tower on the other side because it would be easier for them to put an access road coming off the parking lot than to re-do the walkway and put in additional asphalt. The electrical would be easier to deal with coming off of Burns Road. 1VIr. Hreha said if Sprint would rather put it there and the Commission thinks it would be better there, especially for safety, why is this a problem. Mr. Hyland said it has been the recommendation from the very beginning that the school was not interested in just having a tower put up for no purpose whatsoever. As they looked at that as a location, they saw it would be part of a future development of re-lighting that stadium area. The pole they picked is 1 out of 8 poles. As for the other 7 poles, the school is not ready to do make a move to do a new lighting system. He said that means that Sprint is confined as to where they can go. He said if part of their plan this year was to re-light the stadium, there are things they would sit down and talk about such as moving the pole 15-20 feet to make it the focal point for the other poles. Mr. Yager said the School Board, and particularly the Buildings and Grounds unit, has reviewed this countless times before the Planning Commission saw it once. He asked if the School Board has already defined the proposed location as the best one. He said ultimately he believes the school knows best where it suits their plans 5