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Commissioner Stanbridge agreed that the ordinance needed to be revisited and reevaluated. Our areas are changing and our agricultural area is changing as well. She was concerned about site plans that fail to be completed and then administrative uses take aver as in this instance. She also felt that no matter where the tower goes and no matter what the size, neighbors should be notified. She was very concerned about this; the Board does not know about these situations until people come forward. Conunissioner Tippin quipped that the County does not need an expert because we alreadW7 have Commissioner Macht who knows all there is to know about megaher-zes and airwaves and hat air and who has tried to help him understand all of this. Commissioner Tippin stated it was hard to be objective when it comes to children and offered a motion to grant the appeal. MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Tippin, SECONDED by Commissioner Stanbridge to grant the appeal. Commissioner Macht disclosed that he hada 3-I/2 year oid granddaughter who attends school at Maitland Farms. He felt that the level of radiation is not a problem, but the Board could not find anything in the PZC's decision-making flawed. However, with regard to the criteria upon which the Board needed to base its decision, he suggested that questions (1), (3), and (4) were most appropriate. He thought that there was a lack of information and lack of knowledge by the PZC to ask the right questions since there was no resource of expertise to advise them on technical matters. He thought that the applicant had filled to publish and make available a sealed radiation pattern analysis which would answer the question as to why they had to have this particular site. He thought the Board could support the motion on that basis. He also thought that the arguments of the neighbors were very N ompelling; it is an agricultural zone and if Mr. Legwen wanted to put his pig farm hi, there December 12, 244Q 101 BK �1�PG��I