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Committee opens review of noise ordinance, focusing on fairgrounds and downtown amplification
Summary
The Legislative Review Committee opened a staff-led review of the city noise ordinance March 6, asking staff to compile complaint history and legal options to address amplified sound at a privately owned fairground in the AR zone and amplified devices in the downtown right of way.
The Legislative Review Committee met March 6 at City Hall Conference Room 301 and began a staff-directed review of the city’s noise ordinance, focusing on amplified sound at a privately owned fairground in the AR (agricultural-residential) zone and the use of amplified devices on downtown sidewalks.
Committee members heard from planning, code and legal staff about current rules and enforcement limits and asked staff to return next month with complaint counts, time-of-day data, ownership/management details for the fairground and legal options for revised ordinance language.
Committee members flagged two distinct problems: large, permitted events at the fairground that produce amplified sound but may be exempt under the ordinance’s commercial-use provisions, and smaller, spontaneous amplified sound on sidewalks and in downtown public spaces that residents say disturbs nearby homes and businesses. The county manager noted a common, intuitive fix — "let's just plug in…
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