“They’ve been down this road before and they’ve had problems before,” Kennedy said. “It’s not suitable for a residential area. I’m quite nervous and quite upset about the deterioration of my quality of life. Having to spend 400,000 bucks on a home and $10,000 a year on taxes, it doesn’t seem like that investment should belong in that quality of life.”

Rich Nunziata, the owner of Beach Liquors, at 1087 W. Beech St., just three doors down from Kings ’n Things!, said that in

30 years, he had never seen neighbors protest so much about a business. In less than a year, he said, the police were called 38 times for noise and other complaints at the gym’s previous location.

Nunziata added that a petition in his store opposing CrossFit’s return was signed by more than 200 local people in a couple of days.

“How is this going to be different?” zoning board Chairman Rocco Morelli asked. “What guarantees do we have about noise and vibration?”

Miller said that his clients would do everything possible to be good neighbors. “Both clients live in town and want to conduct their business in town and be a part of the community,” he said.

Miller described the previous location as an old building with substandard construction. The new building, he explained, is more suitable for a gym, located on a corner, with a business on one side and a residence to the rear. The new gym, he said, would be in a building of its own, with its own floor and concrete walls. Pastuch also said that the space is almost double the size of the previous location.

Miller said that CrossFit would take additional steps to mitigate the sound and vibrations by installing a flooring system that would absorb the shock of dropped weights, and that weights would be stored on the Illinois Avenue side of the building, where the wall faces the street, to reduce vibrations.

“The flooring system that we are going to put in is going to mitigate all of the noise,” Pastuch said. He told the board that he visited a CrossFit gym in Washington, D.C., which had a flooring system that put an end to its neighbors’ complaints about noise and vibrations.