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The police gun range in Southeast Plano has been a headache for city officials ever since it opened in the fall of 2008.
Built to train officers from Richardson and Plano, the facility on East Plano Parkway had to be briefly shut down a few weeks after opening because of ventilation issues. Some officers complained that they had felt sick after conducting exercises in the $2.7 million facility.
Neighbors also complained of noise. So the city installed fans to help ventilation and heavy curtains to deflect the noise. The ventilation issues were solved, but noise complaints continued. In 2010, the City Council took a bus tour of surrounding neighborhoods to hear the noise for themselves.
“It’s definitely louder than I expected,” Councilwoman Lissa Smith told the Dallas Morning News at the time.
Now, the city is moving forward with a plan that they hope will finally solve the problems. It has hired an architecture firm, Brown Reynolds Watford Architects Inc., to design improvements that will enclose the facility. Funding for the whole project, which would cost $1.2 million, was included in the capital improvements portion of the proposed budget that City Manager Bruce Glasscock presented last week.
“Residential growth continues to come in close [to the facility] and we want to minimize noise,” Glasscock said.
City officials hope that will be the last of the improvements that they have to make.
The architectural plans will cost about $152,500 to prepare. Once those are done, the full project will come back to the council for approval.
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The police gun range in Southeast Plano has been a headache for city officials ever since it opened in the fall of 2008.
Built to train officers from Richardson and Plano, the facility on East Plano Parkway had to be briefly shut down a few weeks after opening because of ventilation issues. Some officers complained that they had felt sick after conducting exercises in the $2.7 million facility.
Neighbors also complained of noise. So the city installed fans to help ventilation and heavy curtains to deflect the noise. The ventilation issues were solved, but noise complaints continued. In 2010, the City Council took a bus tour of surrounding neighborhoods to hear the noise for themselves.
“It’s definitely louder than I expected,” Councilwoman Lissa Smith told the Dallas Morning News at the time.
Now, the city is moving forward with a plan that they hope will finally solve the problems. It has hired an architecture firm, Brown Reynolds Watford Architects Inc., to design improvements that will enclose the facility. Funding for the whole project, which would cost $1.2 million, was included in the capital improvements portion of the proposed budget that City Manager Bruce Glasscock presented last week.
“Residential growth continues to come in close [to the facility] and we want to minimize noise,” Glasscock said.
City officials hope that will be the last of the improvements that they have to make.
The architectural plans will cost about $152,500 to prepare. Once those are done, the full project will come back to the council for approval.
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