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Residents press city over truck training-school noise and street use; developer offers trees, berm and fence options
Summary
Residents told the Board of Aldermen on Feb. 3 that late-night training and truck traffic associated with a truck-driving school at the mall are disrupting nearby houses; the developer offered tree planting, a raised berm and a fence as mitigation options and the board agreed to review the facility's special-use permit.
Residents raised sustained complaints Monday about noise and trucks related to a truck-driving school operating at the mall near Old Saint Charles Rock Road, saying activities run late into the night and that trucks are using Saint Ann streets despite restrictions in the facility's special-use permit.
At the Feb. 3 meeting, a resident told the Board of Aldermen the operation felt like an industrial use adjacent to a residential neighborhood and said she collected a petition with about 65 signatures. The resident said she had observed multiple vehicles on-site and late-night activity and that the sound at night was the primary complaint.
Paul David Garner, the developer, told the board he and the tenant are prepared to implement mitigation measures. Garner said the tenant uses GPS tracking and the Motive software to log truck movements, that typical late-night operations shut down around 1:30 a.m. (vehicles…
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