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Gilbert council approves wide-ranging code updates including noise, parking and bike-light rules
Summary
Council passed several code amendments Dec. 17 expanding the town’s noise ordinance (covering tire squealing, revving, exhausts and amplified music), tightened parking rules, adopted bicycle lighting requirements, and left in place process steps for an exemption on false-alarm assessments after debate.
The Gilbert Town Council on Dec. 17 approved multiple municipal code amendments aimed at regulating public-obstruction, vehicle noise, parking behavior and bicycle lighting.
Assistant Chief Mike Angstead summarized the package (items 11–19), explaining item 11 targets obstruction at bus shelters and public places, item 14 expands the town’s vehicle-noise prohibitions to include tire-squealing, excessive horn use, revving while stationary, and unreasonably loud exhaust modifications, and items 15–17 add rules…
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