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Council backs code review and enforcement options after residents cite chronic loud-car and motorcycle noise
Summary
Council members instructed staff to pursue updates to the noise code, review state and federal vehicle-noise rules, and explore enforcement measures including public education, targeted enforcement events and technology pilot programs; staff will return with draft code changes and enforcement options.
Mayor Pro Tem and several council members raised ongoing public complaints about loud cars and motorcycles circling downtown, causing sleep and quality-of-life issues. The study session on Feb. 25 focused on legal tools, enforcement challenges and possible next steps.
City Attorney Young said the city's current noise ordinance uses a vague 'unreasonably loud' standard that is hard to prove in court, and that state law already prohibits muffler bypasses and removals for motor vehicles. He said federal regulations adopted by the state set a motorcycle noise…
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