Councillor wants crackdown on loud vehicles, calling it a ‘quality of life’ issue yyc yyccc
Coun. Courtney Walcott has a notice of motion calling on city administration to look at adjusting existing bylaws on noise to make it easier to enforce, and to take another look at fines and penalties.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
“If you’ve got your door open, and so loud outside that it’s an unpleasant experience for customers, then you are negatively impacting your ability to sell a product,” she said. Coun. Courtney Walcott says traffic noise, especially in highly populated areas, is a “quality of life” issue.“When you had something attached to a light post and it was listening for the noise on the street, it was very challenging to actually say that that car did it beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said. “And that’s the threshold you’d have in the court system.”
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