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Parker council workshops revisions to noise ordinance, debates scope for human voice and truck idling
Summary
Council reviewed edits to harmonize two noise ordinance sections, debated whether human conversation could be captured by a 'plainly audible' standard, and questioned a 10,000-pound truck idling threshold; staff agreed to add clearer examples and consistency edits before the next meeting.
Parker 'The City Council spent the first hour of its Jan. 6 meeting in a workshop reviewing proposed language changes to the city's noise ordinance intended to harmonize two prior provisions and clarify enforcement.
Catherine, a city staff attorney, presented a revised draft that would change a presumption tied to vehicle-related noise from "within 30 feet" to "beyond 30 feet," replace circular references by using the term "prohibited noise" in section 1.31.05 and refer enforcement criteria back to section 1.31.04, and add a cross-reference to the maximum permissible sound level section. She said a typographical repetition had…
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