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Council committee backs moving noise-control map amendment to full council to restore 2017 boundaries
Summary
Councilman Chad Jones, chair of the public safety committee, asked colleagues to advance Resolution 20 of 2025 — a petition to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to extend the city’s noise-control exemption map for five years, offering an amendment to restore the 2017 boundaries that would re‑include parts of Midtown.
Councilman Chad Jones, chair of the public safety committee, asked colleagues to advance Resolution 20 of 2025 — a petition to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) to extend the city’s noise-control exemption map for five years — and said he would offer an amendment to restore the map boundaries in effect in 2017.
Assistant City Solicitor Jonathan Luff described the item as “resolution 20 of 2025. This is the resolution approving the submission of the petition for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board,” and said the current ordinance had run from 2020 through 2025 and lapsed in January 2025. He told council members the administration had prepared a map showing the area in the 2017 resolution that Jones proposed restoring.
The committee discussed boundaries at length. Councilman Jones…
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