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Residents urge council to pursue quiet zone for train horns and question a condo project in old-growth forest
Summary
Two residents during public expression asked council to act on train-horn mitigation using Federal Railroad Administration guidance and raised concerns about removal of old-growth trees for a condo development; one speaker said protesters were met by a police presence.
Two members of the public raised separate concerns at the Sept. 9 Hammond City Council meeting.
Bernard Gully of 11 Seoul Avenue urged the council to pursue a railroad "quiet zone" and distributed a Federal Railroad Administration fact sheet on establishing quiet zones. Gully said trains park very close to his home and that the FRA…
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