Greatest. Mayor. Ever.
Bloomberg Seeks to Toughen Code for Noise in City
The legislation contains 45 pages of painstaking detail about sound and its resulting fury, with many areas singled out for enforcement, including these:Barking dogs would have 5 minutes to cease yapping at night, and 10 minutes during the day. (Currently there is no time limit.)
Roaring air conditioning units, now mostly exempt from noise laws when in clusters, would be subject to stricter standards.
Construction projects would most likely be curtailed on weekends and at night, and the industry would be asked to use equipment to reduce sound, like noise jackets for jackhammers.
Ice cream trucks, accustomed to inching down city streets bleating out-of-tune childhood ditties, would have to lose their soundtracks by 2006, replacing them with the little bells of yore. (Taco trucks would meet the same fate.)
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Posted by: david | June 8, 2004 3:17 PM
huzzah!
Posted by: finn | June 8, 2004 3:47 PM
You'd expect me to have problems with the barking dog thing but I don't -- although I think there should be some sort of provision in there for people who've just gotten puppies or rescue dogs.
Gothamist posted about a condo cracking down on dog owners a while back. I'm all for people taking responsibility for themselves and their pets (and their children!) but I also hate the people who have a handful of bad experiences with poorly-behaved dogs and their asshole owners and then take it out on the vast majority of dogs and their people.
Posted by: lia | June 8, 2004 4:08 PM
Greatest. Mayor. Ever.
Um. Pass.
Posted by: zagg | June 9, 2004 11:22 AM
and what about car alarms?
TransAlt is pushing for a ban and I want one too. I moved from Manhattan to a quiet Brooklyn street and it is lovely except for the (*%$& people that have alarms so sensitive that they go off everytime a truck passes. It starts to get a little old when your baby wakes up for the fourth time in two hours because of the same car alarm.
Funny thing is that it is completely legal to have your alarm go off at all hours.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2004 8:04 AM
The car alarms will be coming soon, but the insurance companies are holding it up. Currently people get breaks on their rates when they have a car alarm installed, and legislation has to be passed to make that practice illegal before the car alarms themselves are made illegal.
Posted by: david | June 15, 2004 9:40 AM