Agoura Hills council directs staff to prepare resolution to revoke New Era Performance business license after years of noise complaints

The Agoura Hills City Council on Jan. 22 directed staff to prepare a resolution to revoke the business license of New Era Performance and Tuning LLC after hearing testimony, an acoustical engineering report and resident complaints that the shop’s dynamometer operations repeatedly exceeded city noise limits.

Council action came after a prosecutor and the city’s acoustical expert told the council that dynamometer runs — where a vehicle is held in place and run at high RPM to measure power — produced noise levels that exceeded the city’s 65 dBA daytime threshold. The council voted 5–0 to ask staff to prepare a revocation resolution and return it at the Feb. 12 council meeting.

The case began when City Prosecutor Eric Marcus presented staff’s evidence, saying the city had received complaints as early as 2017 and renewed complaints in 2021 and thereafter. Marcus told council the city retained Acoustics Group, Inc., whose principal, Robert Wu, performed short- and long-term noise monitoring near the complainants’ properties. "We identified 15 clear dyno runs," Wu testified, and…