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Amherst advances two noise-code amendments to third reading
Summary
The Amherst City Council voted 4-0 on May 12 to send two ordinances amending the city's noise code'one establishing decibel-based performance standards and one updating the unnecessary/excessive noise provision'to a third reading for further consideration.
The Amherst City Council on May 12 voted 4-0 to send two proposed amendments to the city's noise code to a third reading, advancing measures that would add decibel-based performance standards and update the ordinance on unnecessary or excessive noise.
The two measures were introduced on the council's second reading. Councilmember Janek, who seconded the measure on decibel-based standards, summarized the change as creating a specific, measurable threshold officers could use when responding to neighbor complaints. "We have an ordinance in front of us that, for years, was…
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