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Peter Coleman From: Richard Pertasso <petrasso@psfc.mit.edu> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2023 12:29 PM To: Recreation Committee Cc: Lisa.Obrien@lexingtontmma.org; 'Claire Sheth'; 'Rick DeAngelis'; CBOUTWELL@mgh.harvard.edu; Peter Coleman; Melissa Battite; meb@activitas.com; dong0chen88@gmail.com Subject: Abutter endorsement of RC proposal for cement -based tennis practice boards at Gallagher courts, as presented by RC Activitas consultant Megan Buczynski, at 21 Dec. 2022 RC meeting Attachments: noise from tennis practice boards and recommendations_16feb22.pdf USE CAUTION: This email came from outside the Town of Lexington. Do not click links, open attachments or respond to the email unless you recognize the sender, you are expecting the communication and you know the content is safe. Hello Recreation Committee, Subsequent to the public comments, made at the 17 may 2023 meeting, Lisa Obrien requested a copy of that statement, which is found immediately below. Find also attached the detailed reported, submitted to the RC on 16 Feb. 2022, which strongly advocates, due to the extremely close proximity of the tennis practice boards to the abutters, for the use of cement -based boards, both for reasons of significant sound mitigation and for long-term durability, We welcome the opportunity to continue to work with the RC and RD to address this issue, which is solvable. Thank you, Richard Petrasso and Dongling Chen 17 May 2023. Comments of Richard Petrasso and Dangling Chen, to the Rec. Committee, endorsing cement -based tennis practice boards at the Gallagher courts. Good evening. I am Richard Petrasso, and DongLing Chen and 1 live at 39 Parker Street, which abuts the Gallagher courts and the tennis practice boards. There are four points we would like to make about the tennis practice boards and their proposed replacement: 1. We strongly endorse the recommendation of the RC's Consultant and Designer, Megan Bucynski, of Activitas, made to this committee at the 21 Dec. 2022 meeting, to replace the existing fibre -glass -based tennis practice boards with cement -based ones. Doing such would significantly reduce the impulsive noise burden on the abutters. (As we have explained before, this impulsive noise is far out of compliance with both Town and State noise by-laws.... measured to be 85 dBA at the abutter property line, which is 30 dBA above compliance.) (As many of you are aware, Gallagher abutters have advocated, in public documents to the RC, for the use of cement -based tennis practice boards to address this problem. See, for example, the public document that was submitted to the RC on 16 Feb. 2022. Therein cement -based boards are shown to be far superior, both in reflected and transmitted noise. They are also more durable. ) 2. Replacement with cement -based boards will be effective in addressing the impulsive noise problem only if the boards are used exclusively for tennis ( something that the signage on the current practice boards does require). Other balls, such as soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, pickleball, volley ball, etc, if allowed on the cement -based board, will only exacerbate the noise problem. So we request that, as is the present case, that the new boards be used exclusively for tennis practice, and that signage on the boards indicate this. 1