Preston — The Foxwoods Resort Casino-AEG Live inaugural Revolution Rock Festival Sept. 17 won't be held in Preston this year as originally planned, but three Route 2 parking lots owned by the Mashantucket tribe in town will be used for festival parking, the Board of Selectmen learned Thursday.

Concert organizers have estimated that 15,000 to 18,000 fans are expected to attend the 16-band festival that will include heavy metal bands Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer, Volbeat, Chevelle, Of Mice & Men, Anthrax and Ghost.

The concert will be held in a parking lot on Mashantucket reservation land in Ledyard a short distance from the Preston town line.

The main parking — approved by the state Department of Transportation — will be on open fields in Preston on the Foxwoods side of Route 2, First Selectman Robert Congdon said.

The DOT set a condition that parking controls must be approved by town Fire Chief Tom Casey, Congdon said.

Concert organizers will install a chain link fence running from the parking lot to the land where the concert will be held. Concert patrons will be asked to walk to the concert within the parking lot, not along Route 2 outside the fence, Congdon said.

The tribe owns a large lot across the street in Preston, where the concert originally was proposed this past spring. The tribe moved the concert after nearby residents voiced opposition and town officials expressed concern that they would not have enough time to work out safety and traffic control and permit approval logistics.

That land instead would be used for overflow parking, Congdon said, but concert officials have told the town they do not expect to need the property for parking.

After moving the concert to the reservation, Foxwoods officials told Preston they still hope to hold the annual Revolution Rock Festival in Preston in 2017.

Congdon said concert organizers have offered to provide tickets to selectmen to attend the concert to see how it is run, but “I told them we couldn't do that,” he said.

Casey will work the concert for public safety, Congdon said.

The town will use its noise monitor at the Hilton Garden Inn and at the Dunkin' Donuts, the closest facilities in Preston to the concert, to gauge the noise levels.

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