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Jenny Soo From: Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:09 PM To: Jenny Soo Subject: Comment on Application PCUP-155/PDR-513, Trinity Lutheran Church I just received notice of an application (PCUP-i55/PDR-5t3, Trinity Lutheran Church) for the expansion of the existing church located at 122 Hopyarcl Road. I will not be able to attend the meeting scheduled for July ;ist, and so I am sending you my comments via email, in the hopes that they will be taken into account before any decisions are made. I live almost directly across from the church.~Iy address is on Ilarvest Circle, but my property bads to Del Valle Parkway. I will be heavily impacted by the noise of this construction. I remember when the church added their last building, just a few years ago. The noise was terrible, especially the bulldozers, which seemed to go on day after day for week. Not only are the bulldozers themselves very loud, but the incessant and horribly loud "beep-beep-beep" whenever they switch into reverse is enough to drive one crazy. I vvorl: from home, so I'm affected on a daily basis by these sounds. This looks like a huge project, building multiple large buildings, expanding the parking lot and redoing the landscaping. 1 can't even imagine how long it will last, and how much disruption it will cause. I know that the building of the new parking lot next to the other church on Del Valle Parkway lasted for many months, and involved a huge amount of heaw• equipment noise and beeping. When I moved to this house over ten years ago, I did so partly because it is a quiet neighborhood, and I never expected it to be turned into a construction cone. In addition to the church's last building project, my next-door neighbor completely rebuilt their house about three years ago. During that time, the noise vvas loud enough that one of my dogs developed noise phobias that led to generalized anxiety disorders. She is now on daily medications, inchiding scrtrtline (Zoloft), alprtzolarn (Xanax) and clonazepam, in order to control her fears enough for her to live a halfway normal life. Even tiv-ith this, we were unable to walk anywvhere near the construction of the parking lot described above. I am worried that if we have to deal with months more of loud construction noise, especially heavy equipment, that she is not going to be able to handle it. At the least, eve may have to give up our daily walks for a prolonged period of time, and remain shat up in the house with all doors and vvindovvs closed throughout the time that the construction is going on. At the worst, her fears will worsen to the point where they can no longer be controlled by medication, and slte w~-ill have to be euthanized.