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Burr Ridge board amends nuisance code to curb commercial landscaping on holidays after Thanksgiving noise complaint
Summary
On Dec. 8, 2025 the Burr Ridge mayor and board adopted an amendment to Section 38 of the municipal code to restrict commercial outside maintenance on holidays, add snow-clearing exemptions and align fines with other code provisions; the measure passed on a 5-0 roll-call vote.
The Burr Ridge mayor and board of trustees voted Dec. 8 to amend Section 38 of the municipal code to clarify rules for commercial outside maintenance and to preempt commercial landscaping work on holidays.
Trustee Francis, who asked that the provision be revisited after landscapers worked near his home on Thanksgiving, told the board he recorded the noise at his front step: "80 decibels on my front step." He said commercial crews including backpack leaf blowers ran from about 1 p.m. until dusk and that, under the existing ordinance, that work was permitted.
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