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Residents raise noise, wildlife, cemetery and historic-site concerns; developer says mitigation and studies will follow
Summary
Neighbors warned of steady low-frequency noise, impacts to bees and local agriculture, possible heat-island effects, and threats to historic cemetery and Walls farmhouse; Montro said mitigation (sound walls, equipment siting) and archaeological and endangered-species studies will be performed.
Speakers at the meeting repeatedly raised environmental and cultural concerns. Jane Bowdenheimer and others described a nearby historic cemetery and native burial sites and asked for archaeology and preservation measures; a community-garden member stressed pollinators and asked what would be lost if the land were paved. "Once the bees are gone, you'll know just how much they had to say," one speaker said.
Technical testimony cautioned residents that generators, chillers and cooling towers can produce high sustained noise levels and visual impacts. Montro's representative described modern noise-abatement practices (acoustical barriers, equipment siting and enclosed generators) and said the developer will perform threatened-and-endangered-species studies and revise the site plan where streams were identified. County noise ordinances, stormwater-pond design and NCDEQ post-construction controls were cited as regulatory frameworks that will shape mitigation requirements.
