MAHOMET, Ill. (WCIA) — People in Mahomet won’t be getting a proposed truck stop that would’ve pumped tax revenue into the community.

The application to build a Travel America has been withdrawn… And building one will no longer be considered by the village board.

Some residents said the biggest concern is pollution. But not just air — also noise pollution and run off from the station moving into the nearby neighborhood.

“Being in the trucking industry for almost 28 years. It was something that concerned me right away because I’ve been around trucks,” Mahomet resident Brent Fountain said.

He’s lived in Mahomet for 23 years. He and his wife have a house in the Meadow Lake neighborhood — next to where a Travel America was proposed to be built.

People against the project — like Fountain — didn’t like the environmental changes this could bring.

“I knew from experience that some of those negatives that we were going to deal with were emissions, noise, light pollution, environmental impacts amongst among many other things,” Fountain said.

However, some people in the community had a different perspective.

“Think it’ll add to the community,” Mahomet resident Sherry Hodges said in an interview with WCIA in November. “It’s being placed in a position on the east side of the community that’s growing anyway. I think we’ll see a lot of income from it, and I think it’s a good growth factor.”

Fountain said the community will be missing out on revenue the travel center would have brought.

“I think the biggest proponent for the truck stop was the tax incentive and the money that it would bring into town. And but the negative impact far outweighed that,” Fountain said.

He said over 1,000 people signed a petition agreeing with him. Now the application for the truck stop has been taken back — so for now — the project is dead.

“What Mahomet stands for, what Mahomet really wants to be is a growing community and a community that cares for its residents and the right kind of growth,” Fountain said.

Fountain said he’s been talking with some Village Board members and is excited for different projects that could be coming. He said a hotel is an example of growth he could get behind.