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DeKalb committee defers proposed noise ordinance and companion electric landscape rebate program for further review
Summary
The Parks, Environment & Community Services Committee deferred for 60 days a draft ordinance to set daytime and nighttime sound limits and a companion resolution to create a rebate program for electric landscape equipment, while staff and the law department refine language and implementation details.
The Parks, Environment & Community Services Committee on a unanimous voice vote deferred for 60 days a proposed amendment to Chapter 16 of the Code of DeKalb County that would establish daytime and nighttime sound standards and new restrictions on certain landscaping devices, and separately deferred a companion electric landscape-maintenance device rebate program.
Committee members and county attorneys said the draft ordinance would set a daytime decibel standard (65 dB) and use a “plainly audible” standard at night (sound plainly audible at 100 feet). The draft also calls out landscape maintenance devices, proposing…
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