This is in response to Sun Journal stories printed Jan. 21 and 22.

Promoters Mike Shea and Dean Staffieri are full of “gusto” while creating their country music festival to be placed in the center of residential areas without input from the residents.

Apparently Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport Manager Rick Lanman has “no problem” locating a festival in the backyards of Marston’s Corner/Constellation Drive residents. Lanman is quoted as saying, “The whole area is already designed for noise.”

The reality is, we here in the Constellation Drive neighborhood experience noise pollution on a daily basis, without concern shown for human rights or animal welfare. It is not tolerated well and we do care.

Maybe Lanman could support such a concert in his own neighborhood. It is not likely that Homeland Security or the Federal Aviation Administration would look fondly on such a plan, and they should be included in the process.

I have other concerns.

How is a concert that could attract up to 14,000 people (many of whom will have the option of getting pumped up on beer) going to help our community — a community already overwhelmed with public safety budget constraints?

Will it create long-term living wage jobs?

Will it help the local tax base?

The answer may be to have it far away from an Auburn and/or Lewiston location. Someplace where the population can support an accident waiting to happen.

Tina Gilbert, Auburn