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Old 07-24-2020, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ffresh View Post
In fairness, while in my former profession, I saw MANY cities around the USA (and other countries) where multi-million dollar "noise breaker" walls were constructed to ameliorate road noise in adjacent communities. I have NO idea which entity was responsible, financially or otherwise, for getting the walls constructed, or whether it was before or after the fact. I do not believe taxpayers should be financially responsible to make a developer's product more desirable; I am only pointing out the fact that this is not unheard of and, in fact, fairly common. I wonder who the petitioner wants to finance the construction - is it the developer I would suppose?

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It's federal law if you add a lane to an existing highway, you must add sound mitigation if there are residences adjacent to the roadway.