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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
Planning Division
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596
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Memorandum
To: Gerald Gatobu, Senior Planner
From: Brent Nelson
Landscape Planner
Extension 3272
bnelson @ albemarle.oriz
Re: ARB 07 -94, Cervenka - Verizon
Tax Map 93, Parcel 47N
Tier II Person Wireless Service Facility
Alternate Location
Balloon Test, May 13, 2008
Date: May 13, 2008
A second balloon test was conducted on May 13, 2008 for the above referenced proposal.
For this demonstration, a balloon was launched from the original location proposed for
the monopole during the September 27, 2007 balloon test (Location A), at an elevation
10' above the reference tree. As a comparison, another balloon was simultaneously
launched from a location 75' farther from (south of) the Route 53 Entrance Corridor
(Location B), at the same elevation.
ARB staff present at the demonstration determined that despite being 75' farther from
(south of) the Route 53 EC, the balloon launched at Location B was more visible, and
more sky lit, than the balloon launched at the original location (Location A). The
proposed site for the equipment shelter at Location B appeared to be more visible from
the EC than the shelter site for Location A.