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Committee narrows noise ordinance: keeps muffler cutout ban, adds 'no rolling coal' language
Summary
After debate, the committee retained prohibitions on muffler cutouts, struck broad nuisance-language and redundant sections, and added a clause targeting ‘‘rolling coal’’ (diesel engine modifications that increase noise). Staff will ask the city attorney to draft revised ordinance language.
The Operations Committee on Oct. 24 revised its approach to a proposed traffic-noise ordinance after reviewing board-level feedback and resident concerns. Committee members agreed to keep a provision banning muffler cutouts, remove several broad or duplicative subsections (including language the committee worried might threaten First Amendment protections), and add a new clause banning ‘‘rolling coal’’—the intentional modification of…
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