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Subcommittee advances bill allowing local requests for TDOT highway noise studies
Summary
House Bill 2009 would let local governments ask TDOT to evaluate highway traffic noise when tree lines are cleared; sponsor said the bill does not require mitigation, and the subcommittee voted 7–0 to send it to the full Transportation Committee.
Chairman Lafferty explained House Bill 2009 as a measure authorizing local legislative bodies to request that the Tennessee Department of Transportation conduct highway traffic noise studies when tree zones or tree lines are cleared near state roadways.
Lafferty said the bill would not guarantee mitigation but would give communities a way to have noise concerns evaluated using TDOT data, and that routine maintenance or roadway expansion projects that remove vegetation could trigger the study. After brief discussion and no amendments, the subcommittee opened the board and the clerk announced the vote as 7 ayes, 0 noes; House Bill 2009 was sent to the full Transportation Committee.
