Freeway Noise Study Gets Nod
After hearing residents’ complaints for more than six months, the City Council has agreed to spend $15,000 to study noise levels in the Capistrano Garden Homes and Las Brisas neighborhood.
Residents say that noise from Interstate 5 is so bad that they can barely have conversations in their backyards. They said the sound walls and berms built by the Transportation Corridor Agencies when it widened the freeway did not solve the problem, as they had hoped.
Agency officials have told residents that, according to their sound reports, noise in the neighborhood has dropped or is below the federally mandated level.
Homeowners have asked the council to build a new 14-foot wall spanning the entire length of the Las Brisas development. Officials say that would cost $200,000 to $300,000.
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