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Residents raise noise, heavy-equipment and school-safety concerns in public comment
Summary
Residents raised noise, traffic-safety and zoning enforcement concerns during public comment, including calls for a sound wall along widened 90 Sixth Avenue and investigation into heavy equipment being stored and moved on Colorado Boulevard.
Several residents used the public‑comment period to press the council on neighborhood quality‑of‑life and safety issues.
Stephanie Miller, a Buffalo Highlands resident, said the 90 Sixth Avenue widening has caused significant truck noise between Landmark and Telluride and requested the city install a sound wall along that segment to reduce noise, mitigate safety risks near houses and reduce potential litigation from collisions and property‑value impacts. "...the amount of commercial truck traffic that goes right through there is significant," Miller said, and she estimated a mile of sound wall could cost in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mark Schulman, a nearby resident who attended a recent informational meeting, urged the council to reconsider increasing the speed limit from 40 to 45 mph on the widened road and highlighted that plans had identified both stoplights and sound walls as mitigation but that the city currently lacks revenue for those measures.
Other comments asked staff to check zoning and enforcement where Jackie Valdez saw large industrial equipment being driven onto a site on Colorado Boulevard and reported large semis stored on neighboring lots; staff said community development would investigate. Barbara Cosiglione described traffic and speeding concerns near Monaco School and asked why speed bumps had not been installed on two nearby streets; staff clarified that the streets she named are in unincorporated Adams County and directed her to county contacts for that program.
Lucy Molina used her time to call for an independent investigation into alleged harassment and retaliation involving city partners and political actors and urged the council to protect whistleblowers; city officials did not announce action at the meeting but received the request into the record.
Council members and staff responded during the meeting with jurisdictional clarifications (school property and athletic-surface decisions are under Adams 14 school district control; unincorporated streets fall under Adams County) and said staff would follow up on code/zoning questions and enforcement for the heavy equipment report.
