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Planning and Zoning Commission <br />Minutes <br />March 12,2019 <br />Mr. Yates said yes, sir. That is the old feed warehouse for the poultry operation and Mr. Myers <br />presently just keeps some junk in there. It is not for human habitation and he keeps old stuff <br />there. <br />The Chair said you said there is a good canopy, but what we have been dealing with lately is <br />buffers that you look at when you are standing on the ground. He asked if Mr. Yates had <br />anything that he could show what it looks like from the ground this time of year when there are <br />no trees or all you see are the trunks. How is that buffered on the one side, is what he is asking. <br />What does the existing tree line show? There might be a tree line but it might be 15 feet off the <br />ground. <br />Mr. Yates said you have the existing trees and in this case we are dead of winter. He was out <br />riding this afternoon with Mr. Myers and you have a pretty thick cover there because of the <br />volume of trees and also the fact that they are primarily hardwoods. Obviously, during the <br />summer, even better when the foliage is out. But you still have due to the volume of trees, he <br />thinks, a pretty thick canopy. If this Board would like them to augment that around the base, we <br />have no issue with that. <br />The Chair thinks if you are walking the neighbor's property and you look, would it be seen now, <br />because that is what you would see next year, if you had some kind of evergreen all the way <br />through. He is just saying and is talking out loud. He does not know what is there. It says is <br />existing trees, landscape are sufficient to screen compound from adjacent parcel. He said that is <br />true but not on the ground. <br />Mr. Yates said we would be very open to additional landscaping on the ground if that is the <br />desire of this Board. <br />The Chair thinks sometimes alleviating some maybe, prospective complaints. <br />Mr. Yates said again, we were looking to the south and west where we had that tree cover. We <br />were going to come back in on the north and east with the Leyland cypress. We have had pretty <br />good luck with them over the years because they grow thick and quick. He said they get up and <br />they get out which is what we are looking for to cover the base. <br />Another thing they are doing behind the trees, most cell sites just have like a chain link fence, we <br />are going with an eight foot wooden fence on this one. It is more in character with what is on <br />Steve's property. <br />The Chair said that makes sense. He asked if it affected our EMS service or anything like that. <br />Mr. Yates said his home county of Charleston County, South Carolina on average, our <br />consolidated dispatch has seen about 82 to 84 percent of their calls, the 911 calls, coming in from <br />a wireless device. Why, it makes sense. You have an instant, it is right on you belt. The <br />nationwide average is about 80, so what this does is it ensures you have the robust coverage. <br />10