UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:02 am ET
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(Mike Carraggi/Patch)
MELROSE, MA — When Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas pitched their emergency order last week to require some developers to report weekly acoustic monitoring data to the city for public consumption, they said the developers were already recording the data and it would cost them nothing extra. This order was just to help the city enforce what the developers already agreed to — which is keeping track of the noise coming from some larger construction projects.
But a letter from an attorney for one of the projects read at Tuesday night's City Council meeting painted a different picture. David Lucas, who represents the 99 Washington St. development, wrote providing weekly data reports for that project would cost the developer 10 times as much, saying weekly prices would increase to $2,000 and add as much as $100,000 in unanticipated costs for lengthier projects.