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Residents urge Limestone County Commission to adopt noise ordinance over asphalt plant, quarry
Summary
Public commenters at the Jan. 21 Limestone County Commission work session called on commissioners to create a retroactive noise ordinance, citing daily 8–12 hour disturbances from an asphalt plant and quarry and mental-health impacts for neighbors.
Several residents told the Limestone County Commission during its Jan. 21 work session that ongoing noise from nearby industrial sites has made parts of the county difficult to live in and pressed the commission to draft a noise ordinance.
Kelly Dye, a resident, said she is offering to work with the commission and an attorney pro bono to draft an ordinance and asked why the county has not acted after earlier offers of legal help. "Those corporations that, once again, you have done nothing to prevent from disrupting and destroying our health, homes, and neighborhoods," Dye said, asking commissioners to adopt a noise ordinance "that will be retroactively set today."
The call was echoed by Cody Gillum, who described vibrations and sustained noise from an asphalt plant, said the highway near I-65 registers about 70 decibels and argued that nearby residents — including people with post-traumatic stress disorder — cannot sleep. "Imagine that your home is vibrating throughout that entire time," Gillum said, urging commissioners to consider protections used in nearby cities.
The speakers named Grayson Carter and Son Construction Inc., an asphalt plant and a quarry as sources of the impacts; Dye and Gillum said the noise runs 8–12 hours a day, five to six days a week. Gillum said he and others have gathered sample noise ordinances from nearby jurisdictions, including Athens, Huntsville and Mountain Brook, and offered to supply copies to county attorneys to speed drafting.
County leaders did not make an ordinance proposal or take formal action during the work session; the remarks were made during the public-comment portion of the meeting. Commission discussion on how to proceed was not recorded in the transcript.
Speakers: Kelly Dye, resident; Cody Gillum, resident.
The residents asked the commission to begin drafting an ordinance, to consider PTSD and other health impacts in the ordinance language, and to meet with affected neighbors. No formal vote or direction to staff to draft an ordinance is recorded in the meeting transcript.
The commission recessed for 15 minutes after the listed agenda items and did not announce further action on the noise concerns at the time recorded in the transcript.
