Neighbors on Rangeway Road in Billerica, Mass., will not have to contend with the expansion of a recycling plant, but they will still have to contend with the noise produced at the facility.
"Everything stays how it is," said attorney James Dangora, representing Empire Paper Packaging, after the Billerica Planning Board narrowly rejected plans to expand Empire operations to a second building on Sterling Road.
Joseph Motzkin, who has owned the recycling plant for two years, had offered to spend some $100,000 to put up a soundproofing fence as a noise barrier in order to appease residents who live at Swanson Meadows, just behind the plant.
"He has done everything he can to address the concerns of the neighbors, at a considerable expense," said Chairman Paul Marasco. "This man is really trying to be a good neighbor."
Plans called for the construction of a 17,600-square-foot building on the site where corrugated cardboard and newspaper has been recycled since 1987. The existing building is 17,250 square feet. Lowell (Massachusetts) SunLatest from Recycling Today
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