Foxwoods Resort Casino and concert promoter AEG Live will move the daylong Revolution Rock Festival on Sept. 17 from a proposed site on Route 2 in Preston to an undisclosed location on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation, a Foxwoods official informed the town.

Christopher O'Connell, Foxwoods vice president of development and resort services, said Thursday that concert planners faced too tight a time schedule to obtain permits and properly market the festival proposed this year for a 41-acre open field the Mashantuckets own in Preston.

Town officials had estimated the permit process for Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Selectmen approval could take much of the summer, leaving little time to market the festival and sell tickets, O'Connell said.

“We want to make sure this is held right,” O'Connell said Thursday. “From a marketing standpoint, this needs to be announced. … But we're certainly looking forward to continuing our conversations with the town of Preston for 2017.”

O'Connell said he could not yet divulge the exact location on the Mashantucket reservation where the one-day festival will be held, and could not yet identify the rock artists scheduled to perform.

In their proposal to the town of Preston, Foxwoods and AEG estimated the festival, which would run from noon to midnight on Sept. 17, would have two or three stages and would bring in 15 to 20 rock artists.

O'Connell said Foxwoods would announce details of the 2016 festival soon.

First Selectman Robert Congdon agreed with Foxwoods' decision to move the rock festival this year due to the tight time frame.

“In the best case, it would have been very difficult for them to put it all together and to give us ample time to review it for public safety,” Congdon said. “It's probably best for it not to be put on this year.”

Congdon said logistical issues, such as security and emergency services staffing, parking and traffic plans needed to be examined carefully for the major event.

Other issues, such as noise levels and noise mitigation efforts, would need scientific investigation.

"It would have been very difficult to get it done for this year," Congdon said.

About 35 residents of nearby Lynn Drive attended last week's Board of Selectmen meeting to express concerns and opposition to the proposed concert, and more than 40 residents attended a special Board of Selectmen meeting Monday during which Foxwoods and AEG officials discussed proposed public safety, traffic and other logistics of the plan.

Residents expressed strong skepticism again to the proposal, especially noise levels expected to range from 80 to 100 decibels.

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