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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The city's truck route system may be changing.

Wednesday night the city's Trucking Issues Subcommittee met with community members to discuss possible changes.

One of the changes the city is considering is turning Austin Bluffs Parkway between Union and Nevada into a truck route.

Currently the city has several routes which include Academy, Powers, Nevada and parts of Austin Bluffs to name a few.

The last time truck routes were studied and revised was back in 1997.

The city's subcommittee said their mission is to balance the quality of life in neighborhoods with the need to move goods through the city.

Despite their intentions, officials with UCCS and some surrounding homeowners do not want trucks in their neighborhood.

"We just want to make our feelings known," Mark Fisher said.

Fisher lives in the Austin Heights Neighborhood which overlooks Austin Bluffs. He worries about the noise the proposed new truck route will cause.

"Nobody likes to sit out in their yard and hear the sound of big trucks going by," Fisher said.

"Based on direction we received from city council, we are trying to improve the city's truck route system and fix gaps in it if possible," Dave Munger said.

Munger is chairman with the city's Trucking Issues Subcommittee or TISC. He said over ten years later it is time for the city to make changes.

"We need to correct some things that were not thought about ten years ago and probably would have been better if they were thought about 50 years ago," Munger said.

He said the change would be beneficial to both truck drivers and local businesses.

"By establishing a thorough grid throughout the city, it makes all parts of the city fairly accessible without putting an undue burden on any part of the city," Munger said.

But, He said they also have to look at possible impacts to surrounding neighborhoods and UCCS.

"Noise and pollution and whether or not the road itself can bear the burden of truck traffic, and there are also safety concerns," Munger said.

He said noise mitigation techniques can be put in place by the city if necessary and added the final decision will be made by city council sometime this spring.

Of course they will host additional community information sessions before they make their final vote.