City noise committee reins in noise ordinance

On Tuesdays the City Council doesn’t meet, reporters must scour the city for a meeting–any meeting–to cover.

Fortunately, there are many. This Tuesday, a city committee you may never have heard of talked about redoing the city noise ordinance, to keep you quiet. (If  you’re too noisy.)

As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins reports, the city’s Environmental Committee got together Tuesday to recommend changing the city’s noise ordinance to keep Do-It-Yourself homeowners quiet an extra hour on Saturday morning–and two extra hours on Sunday.

Currently, you can use loud equipment–lawn mowers, snowblowers, howler monkeys–from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

The committee–comprised of council members Suja Lowenthal, Patrick O’Donnell, and Tonia Reyes Uranga, from the Second, Fourth and Seventh districts, respectively–wants to restrict those hours to 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and either 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, or 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

They couldn’t agree on that last point, and so they left it for the City Council to iron out when it reconsiders the noise ordinance at a later Council meeting. (Irons, by the way, should be unaffected by the noise ordinance.)

Construction work, however, will be affected. The committee also recommended curtailing noisy construction work to 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Sundays–but making no change to any other day of the week.

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