vision2020@moscow.com: Re: decibles in the park
Re: decibles in the park
Kitterman Matt (kittermn@osprey.csrv.uidaho.edu)
Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:21:41 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Sodorff Lori wrote:
> It is my understanding that after yesterdays meeting of the city council
> that the decible level for live music in the park had been limited to 75
> decibles at the parks edge, even with a permit. Instead of the city
> council having to vote on this the ordinances was simply change therefore
> requireing no vote.
I would like to take some of the council around with a db meter: I bet
kids playing on the swings exceed 75 decibels. Also: is MPD now going to
equip its officers with decibel meters? (They can hang them on their
belts next to their 9mms.) Who will be in charge of calibration of these
meters? Seems a very poorly thought-out ordinance.
> Isn,t it enough that there is alsready less than nothing to do in moscow
> that we have residence who for 10 days out of the year cannot and will
> not tollerate some cultural diversity in there narrow little lives?
No, many people are genuinely afraid of any kind of diversity (read: us
vs. them.)
> I was talking with Kris Seiss yesterday evening and he is not giving up
> the fight. He suggests that a large group of people join together and go
> to the city council to propose building an accoustical fence/wall on the
> side of the park where these complaints are steming. He suggests that if
> these people volenteer there time to build the wall and then have some
> children and local artisans from the community paint murrals on it. If
> this were to be refused it would then appear that the source of the
> complaint is not interested in supporting the community but that rather
> he was able to influence sertain members of the council in order to
> satisfiy his own needs and not actually those of his surrounding
> neighbors and community.
To paraphrase Ron Reagan: Mr. Neighbor, tear down this wall!
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