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Supervisors advance amended noise ordinance after public debate on measurement and enforcement
Summary
Committee adopted non-substantive technical amendments to a proposed update of the city's noise control code, agreed to limited additional public notice to add the Entertainment Commission to variance language, and continued the item to a special meeting after extensive public comment on helicopters, fixed sources and enforcement.
The committee considered an ordinance to modernize the San Francisco Police Code's noise provisions, introduce a formal noise-control officer in the Department of Public Health, and create a task force to coordinate enforcement across agencies.
Rajeev Bhatia, director of Environmental Health at the Department of Public Health, framed the ordinance as a public-health modernization: "Our background noise levels for most of San Francisco are above health based standards established internationally," he said, and explained the draft moves noise measurement to the property plane of a noise source and accounts for ambient levels when assessing violations.
Deputy city attorneys described technical…
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