This evening this study session is solely in regards to the I65 segment one widening and in particular the clearing of property that's occurred on T Dot right away but also impacting the property owners adjacent to that primarily on Braxton Park Lane and on Loretta Drive.

At your desk, I have the noise technical report that T DOT had done that is dated August 2020.

And if you'll turn to page page one, which is actually the fourth page in your packet, I want to read the first thing.

The project will not substantially increase existing noise levels at adjacent properties and noise levels at most land uses are predicted to be lower than the NAC.

However, 57 activity group B residences in four NAAs and the activity category C, which is Metro Baptist Church picnic shelter where no one lives, are predicted to be impacted with design year noise levels of 66 decibels or higher.

So you turn to the second page, and this is uh really what has gotten us here.

Noise barriers were evaluated for areas four and five.

For noise barriers to be included in a project, they must be determined to be both feasible and reasonable in accordance with T DOT's noise policy.

The

underlying sentence is this no barriers for the NAAs were determined to be feasible.

Great job.

Just unplug it for right now.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll try to work through this.

Uh repeating this noise barriers for both NAAs were determined to be feasible, however, the required noise barrier area per benefited residents for each each NAA is much higher than the allowable noise barrier area per benefited residents.

So in other words, um what this is saying, and what we know is the noise levels were exceeding what was uh allowed at the time in 2020 prior to the clearance occurring.

It impacts 57, they have identified 57 um residences.

Um, the noise barriers of those are not reasonable, and noise abatement is not currently proposed for this project.

And that um commissioners is where we are this evening.

Uh T Dot did meet with uh the residents last Thursday at Calvary uh church.

They have made a promise to replace the trees once they have opportunity to determine species and type that could be put replaced.

However, we have no idea what the maturity level of those trees would be, and based upon what the findings in this report is and the impact that the residents have experienced this evening, there is a resolution in your packet requesting T DOT to do an additional sound study based upon the true impact with the trees being already remote, not prior to as was done in 2020, but where we are now, and not only that, but to expand the range of the impacted uh properties further than what what it is in their report.

And I'll open it up for any questions y'all may have.

Any questions from the board?

I do have one, and I don't know who can answer this.

Has there ever been a sound barrier put up that did not meet a requirement like this?

I

didn't know in the past if they have put one up, gone around somebody, done something, gone above somebody.

I

and I don't know who to ask that for.

I am sure that there is.

Um I don't have specifics.

Understood.

I can tell you this that the sound barrier wall on I 65 from Pleasant Green Park to out to Loma was done in a different phase from when the other uh sound walls were installed.

That that was a where it came back as a different evaluation, and they were installed at a later time as a part of their third phase, which was kind of down at the 65 Trinity Lane split.

Um they included it in that project.

So I know that does not answer your question because I don't have the means to answer that question.

I just bring that out to everyone because I don't know who can answer that, but I do know from that meeting last week that we all attended T DOT was quite clear that the noise is not the issue, it's the number that it affects, and I don't know how how we can expand it to affect more people to do a new study if it'll affect enough

just for a minute

because when I kind of asked T Dot, like what what's the number that we have and what do we have to be at?

It looked like it had to be over double what it was going to affect what the current was.

I I know, and the reason why I feel like and I do not know where they're seeing the report, I know it's a lot less than 57 homes in the area that that wall was installed years ago, and it was done as a as another phase, I guess you would say at a later time.

Thank

you, Mr.

Ellis.

Any other members?

Questions or comments.

Oh

and again, just from perspective of the study that would be done.

Obviously, this study in 2020 was done prior to any construction being underway, and the flow of traffic obviously is drastically changed at this point in time.

Um, I'm wondering, and this would be a noise study question, I guess.

That obviously that are they going to do the noise study at midnight, or are they going to do it at 4 30 in the afternoon or while the construction's going on?

Because I think at all different times of the day over there, and maybe Mr.

Gilmore

could

maybe have some personal uh experience with this, and what I've heard from others along the Loretta corridor is that it is extremely loud at some times, other than others.

And it

I

don't know if they take into consideration that the traffic is slowed down, you get a lot of the jake breaking as it's called and that sort of thing.

But obviously