UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:02 am ET
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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.
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This 2018 photo shows construction at 419-429 Main St., one of the major projects that have taken place in Melrose in the last few years. (Mike Carraggi/Patch)
MELROSE, MA The City Council is poised to pass an emergency order requiring many construction projects to provide noise monitoring reports to the city, which must then make the information available on its website.
The proposal from Councilors Shawn MacMaster and Cory Thomas comes after what they said have been hundreds of complaints about relentless construction noise at a time when people are working and even teaching their children at home.