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Council receives live-entertainment update after months of complaints; city to continue monitoring and enforcement work
Summary
Council received staff’s update on the live entertainment licensing program. Staff presented decibel monitoring data and noted that live music at Island Brewing is generally within normally acceptable ranges though some readings approached upper limits; council received the report by voice vote.
Carpinteria City Council on Feb. 3 received an update from staff on the city’s live entertainment licensing program and on recent sound monitoring at venues licensed for live music.
Background and staff action: the council reinstated the city’s live entertainment licensing program after the COVID pause and adopted new conditions addressing outdoor music. At council direction in 2024 staff removed distance-based volume standards and some “three-strikes” language and set a 9 p.m. weekday / 10 p.m. weekend curfew and weekly caps on cumulative hours. Since then staff licensed additional venues and continued to receive noise complaints…
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