Our response to Sambol Construction’s plans are not favorable (“Sambol Plans Move to Jackson,” Tri-Town News, April 22). The residents here on Wright Debow Road in Jackson have been putting up with a lot of construction truck noise and speeding as it is. They drive on our residential back road as if they were on a highway, with no regard to the possibility of a resident pulling out of their driveway.
I was almost hit one day by a concrete washout truck who couldn’t hold his lane as he was coming around the bend and I was pulling out of my driveway.
They also tend to engine brake to slow down. We have every truck there is, now that the other businesses have been allowed to open on our road. The salt company has regular, almost daily, supply deliveries from a tractortrailer flatbed fully loaded with 80-pound bags of salt.
That driver is very bad with the engine braking and speeding. Our whole house shakes when he goes by, and he goes by up to eight times a day when they are busy.
Does Wright Debow Road have a weight limit? Is there a volume restriction on the amount of truck traffic a business can have on our road?
Over the past three years, our road has started to fall apart from all of the truck traffic.
From Route 537 to the Interstate 195 overpass, the road is in very bad condition. The road department is out here on a weekly basis trying to keep up with all of the potholes.
We have also noticed that many of the companies on Wright Debow Road are subletting their businesses and sharing them with other trucking companies.
The landscaping company has the concrete washout. The land developer has a construction company. The well driller has the salt company. What was one company using a property now becomes two. Are they allowed to do this in their zoning area?
I think the zoning people are forgetting about the residents on Wright Debow Road. Only part of the road is commercial light industrial; the majority of it is residential. All of these trucks are going through residential areas. Please think of our children and pets. How would you like to live under these conditions?
Roman Guzik
Jackson