Residents in Ammon, Idaho, are complaining about the expected increase in truck traffic due to the construction of a large retail store.

Local mother Michelle Surerus spoke to East Idaho News, and expressed her fears for the increased commercial traffic that the newly built C-A-L Ranch store will bring.

“I don’t want it to be my child that gets hit and killed because the city didn’t think about it before we granted these accesses. I don’t feel like it’s okay for semis to be going through our residential area, one it’s illegal, and two my children’s lives are at stake,” she said.

According to town officials, however, truck traffic is not illegal, as the area is zoned for commercial property. Four to eight trucks are expected to travel on the local route per day once the store opens.

Surerus has also started an online petition called “Protect Our Children” which calls for trucks to take an alternate route through private Walmart property in order to reach the C-A-L Ranch Store.

The petition reads:

The City of Ammon has decided that they have to give these semi-trucks permission to drive through our residential street because there “Is no other way” into the parking lot to unload the trucks, fortunately there might be a way. A SAFER way. If we get enough people to sign then maybe Walmart might decide to let the Semi-trucks use the access between Chuck-A-Rama and Insure It All (off of Hitt Rd.) and drive through the parking lot into the back of the Cal-Ranch Superstore.

Currently, 50 people have signed the petition.

“This was a safe neighborhood, and now I don’t feel like it’s safe anymore,” Surerus added.

Ron Folsom, the town’s director of planning and zoning, said it’s not illegal for trucks to travel through the town’s residential roads, but plans on exploring other safety options, such as adding additional street signs, to address the residents’ fears.