Hi, well, welcome to our August the eleventh public works meeting.

We'll start with a Pledge of Allegiance.

Oh, great.

Thank you for joining us this afternoon.

We'll start with a review of the current draft of the noise ordinance.

Let me get that copy out and we'll go through it.

So just as a start.

Did colleagues, did either of you have a question, a comment, or a concern about anything that you saw in this version?

Okay.

It is it describes nighttime hours as nine PM to nine and nine.

So I would contend that weekend hours should be later, maybe ten.

So night time uh this is make sure it is.

Um with the gateway property rezoning and uh brought up a lot of conversations about um the key stadium and how you know fireworks and music is going there well past ten.

And so what do we do with things like that?

Does that is that an exception to this?

Should we make everything at ten?

I I don't know.

I think nine is too early if we want to have like a vibrant nightlife.

I I'm I'm okay making it ten.

No, I it's it's thirty-four dots.

No, I'm I'm that's one of my questions.

Um I wish Waitel was here.

She's not here.

She's not I wish legal was here.

And in my opinion, we can say recommend whatever we want, and you're right.

Legal Oh, no, no, I mean yeah.

Yeah, I that's what I was going to say, agreed to the non-P.

I'm just thinking about the events we have and I guess the other part about this is we trying to solve a problem, or are we trying to mitigate or prevent one?

I guess that's the the question I'm I'm asking for my colleagues.

From your perspectives, maybe a little of both.

I think we've had some residents who have come with some concerns about some um downtown activity in particular.

Uh I know that um the concerns that have been brought to me from residents in District Five have more to do with automobiles and the the or motorcycles with the rumbling that's that sort of or uh cars that combine the rumbling with loud music coming through neighborhoods, um which I would also like that to be a little quieter, but I also you know we talk a lot about Frederick being a vibrant place and having a vibrant downtown.

And um to me, some of that vibrancy comes from live music and and places where you can go to listen to live music.

At the so I I know I've talked to a lot of residents, you know, I know a lot of people who enjoy that.

At the same time, we have residents who live in pla in nearby places that you know generate a lot of sound.

So how do we um how are we good neighbors to one another?

I think to me is the philosophical question.

How are we good neighbors so that we can still have fun and enjoy the gifts that we have here, but also be considerate of our neighbors.

And the reason why that's a question is because I um I mean this is this is more so for compliance and to ensure quality of life is is not interrupted at the same time we had a room full of people here, particularly business owners and residents.

And I would I would hope before we do that that we would revisit that conversation with them again because I think to whatever we're whatever we're proposing here is gonna affect them.

And that's a great point.

To that end, there's a section in here about places of entertainment, and that is speci that's the group who came and shared their opinions with us the last time we talked about this.

Uh so I believe this number I I don't know whether this number affects them as well.

Yeah, that's that's another I think that probably needs to be revisited in that to that to that end, because we heard the the last time we were here, there were several businesses that were in compliance per se, but when the doors open.

Then that and then of course there there are some as in any, I don't say any, but sometimes there are there are instances where people misuse or abuse abuse that and uh and I want to be I want to be considerate of our neighbors as well in terms of the noise.

And I understand that because that's that's a quality of life issue for certain.

Um I just want to ensure that we don't have any unintended consequences with our business sectors and also our neighbor sectors in terms of if you like to have entertainment, you know.

I mean, you know, you're entertaining at your house and things of that sort, that it it doesn't come to a place where two neighbors have disagreements and all of a sudden you you you so yeah.

So it's I'm just uh some some things for us to consider here.

Yep, very good.

Let's so let's keep that on our radar as we go through here because there may be exemptions or exceptions.

So Very good.

Uh I I did take table one.

I did some more research on table one, which is on let's see, section 34.3 maximum levels.

These are these are the state regulations.

We're allowed to be more conservative, um, but we we we we can be louder but not any software.

Softer but no louder.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yes, thank you.