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Police and trustees push to clarify village noise ordinance; staff to draft specific weekday/weekend language
Summary
Following complaints about weekend and holiday construction noise, the police chief asked the board to remove ambiguous 'weekdays' language from the loud-and-unnecessary-noise ordinance and define explicit days and times; trustees favored 7 a.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. weekends and directed staff to prepare amended ordinance language for review.
The police chief opened a discussion on the village’s loud-and-unnecessary-noise ordinance after a recent complaint about construction work occurring on a weekend and on Thanksgiving. The chief said the ordinance currently references "weekdays" without defining whether that includes Sunday, which leads to inconsistent expectations. He asked the board whether to specify days explicitly (for example, Monday–Friday) or to allow limited weekend construction.
Trustees debated using examples from nearby villages. One trustee proposed 7 a.m. start times on weekdays and 8 a.m. start times on weekends; others suggested uniform weekend hours (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) to avoid complexity. Board members expressed reluctance to broadly ban work on holidays, noting that some homeowners must use holiday time to do repairs. The chair summarized direction to staff to prepare a draft ordinance that uses explicit day definitions and clarifies permitted hours, citing Mount Horeb and Hobart as examples.
No ordinance amendment was adopted at the meeting; staff will return with proposed language to clarify enforcement and holidays.
