Showing posts with label noise ordinance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noise ordinance. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Calaveras Approves Noise Ordinance from Lake Tulloch Alliance
The Calaveras Board of Supervisors has approved a new ordinance September 11th that will install large fines and a regulatory system that will allow law enforcement to curb this growing noise problems in Calaveras County. The board will also appropriate funds for the purchase of monitoring equipment to be used by the Sheriff's office. The Lake Tulloch Alliance appreciates the hard work of the Sheriff's Office and County Planning to bring this new ordinance to the board.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Noise Ordinance Passes BOS 5-0
Weighing in at the 9-11-12 BOS meeting regarding the noise ordinance Lt Seoul from the Sheriff Department made the statement that there could be a reduction in calls due to the possibility of returning to the same call over and over again with the implementation of a noise ordinance.
Spellman took the floor and stated, "You can't legislate respect, you just can't." He continued, we have all "thought of all the possible implications this can have the people who would enjoy peace and who would suffer by this decision... I propose to the Board that we accept as written" the ordinance "with the caveat for an exemption for private parties that do not require a conditional or administrative use permit. We need to focus...we need to distill it a little further, if you are not charging money it is not a for profit event, you should be exempt... there are people who have abused the goodwill and the neighborly sentiments."
Steve Wilensky, "If this is a distilling process we may be over 500 proof by now. We don't think its a great idea to enforce a regulatory hell over the citizens of the county. We have a lack of mediation skills or services... Recently there has been a callus disregard for people in this area, this can not be solved by a permitting process...no more than ten to fifteen people have found themselves to be so important in their sense of freedoms so completing detached from the rights of their neighbors that we have now come to this moment...the goal is to leverage the mediation process..."
Three ammendments:
souund from gunfirirng occuring during hunting
sound from gunfire due to target shooting
sound regulated by the California vehicle code
Passes 5-0
Click HERE to watch video to hear ALL Supervisors opinions (note the ordinance issue is near the end of the recording.)
Click read more to read ordinance.
Spellman took the floor and stated, "You can't legislate respect, you just can't." He continued, we have all "thought of all the possible implications this can have the people who would enjoy peace and who would suffer by this decision... I propose to the Board that we accept as written" the ordinance "with the caveat for an exemption for private parties that do not require a conditional or administrative use permit. We need to focus...we need to distill it a little further, if you are not charging money it is not a for profit event, you should be exempt... there are people who have abused the goodwill and the neighborly sentiments."
Steve Wilensky, "If this is a distilling process we may be over 500 proof by now. We don't think its a great idea to enforce a regulatory hell over the citizens of the county. We have a lack of mediation skills or services... Recently there has been a callus disregard for people in this area, this can not be solved by a permitting process...no more than ten to fifteen people have found themselves to be so important in their sense of freedoms so completing detached from the rights of their neighbors that we have now come to this moment...the goal is to leverage the mediation process..."
Three ammendments:
souund from gunfirirng occuring during hunting
sound from gunfire due to target shooting
sound regulated by the California vehicle code
Passes 5-0
Click HERE to watch video to hear ALL Supervisors opinions (note the ordinance issue is near the end of the recording.)
Click read more to read ordinance.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Spellman Still Working on County Noise Ordinance
Together with Supervisor Wilensky, Copperopolis resident Jack Cox, County Counsel Janice Elliot, Supervisor Darren Spellman has been working on a noise ordinance plan for Calaveras County.
"One size fits all does not work" said Spellman, pointing out that what may work in West Point may not work on Lake Tulloch, the county will need "site specific policies."
Spellman said that as soon as the County Planning Director gets a handle on the general plan and the plan is pushed through with what is required by the state to become compliant, then a generic noise ordinance can be put in place with site specific community plans including their own noise ordinances.
Generic noise ordinances usually include policies that require no loud noises after 10 pm Sunday through Thursday and after midnight Friday and Saturday.
"One size fits all does not work" said Spellman, pointing out that what may work in West Point may not work on Lake Tulloch, the county will need "site specific policies."
Spellman said that as soon as the County Planning Director gets a handle on the general plan and the plan is pushed through with what is required by the state to become compliant, then a generic noise ordinance can be put in place with site specific community plans including their own noise ordinances.
Generic noise ordinances usually include policies that require no loud noises after 10 pm Sunday through Thursday and after midnight Friday and Saturday.
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