H-22 Correspondence – Melinda Cotton
From: Melinda Cotton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 5:43 PM
To: Rex Richardson <[email protected]>; Council District 2 <[email protected]>; Council District 3 <[email protected]>; Council District 1 <[email protected]>; Council District 4 <[email protected]>; Council District 5 <[email protected]>; Council District 6 <[email protected]>; Roberto Uranga <[email protected]>; Council District 8 <[email protected]>; Council District 9 <[email protected]>; CityClerk <[email protected]>
Subject: Fw: City's Proposed Noise Ordinance/Element Fails to Protect Residents (Council Agenda June 6, Item #22)
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Dear Mayor Richardson, Vice Mayor Cindy Allen, my 3rd District Councilmember Kristina, and their Colleagues,
I am writing to ask that you better protect City residents from the excessive noise of musical and other events allowed by the City.
My husband and I live in Belmont Shore, four miles from Downtown Long Beach, yet we can hear loudly and clearly the noise from music events and festivals, etc. taking place Downtown. We know that residents living near these events are greatly disturbed, and tell us that the music and bass amplification is so loud that they flee their homes. They tell us "we can’t talk, watch tv, our bones vibrate. It’s harmful and maddening!"
We understand from those who have carefully studied the Noise Ordinance and Noise Element before you, that these documents do not properly protect residents. We're told there is nothing in the associated municipal code Noise Ordinance (which implements the Noise Element) to protect the health and well being of residents in their homes from excessive amplified noise from city-permitted outdoor music festivals. We're told that in fact, the city exempts music festivals from the noise limits!
We ask that you carefully review the documents before you and that by the time amplified noise from city-permitted outdoor music festivals reaches residences it will comply with the existing noise limits.
Sincerely,
Melinda Cotton
3rd District, Belmont Shore