In a growing city, with more residential areas & commercial activity  in close proximity  to each other, Fishers is taking a look at the noise ordinance.  The City Council held first reading on changes to the city’s noise ordinance Monday.

Mayor Scott Fadness told the Council the city will be engaging “stakeholders,” mostly the impacted residents and businesses, for reaction and input to the proposed ordinance.  Noise is measured by decibels, which can be monitored with the proper equipment.  In other cases, the ordinance simply defines too much noise in other ways.

In most cases, the acceptable decibel level is 70 or below, in in some instances, particularly defined times during the year, the threshold is increased to 80 decibels.

You can review the proposed new noise ordinance at this link and this link.

In other news from the Monday Council session:

–Council members suspended the rules and gave final approval to a new fee schedule for other law enforcement agencies using the FPD rapid DNA testing system.

–The rules were suspended to give a final vote approving a new ordinance on enforcing parallel parking.

—A non-reverting fund was approved by Council members for the under-construction Events Center.  Mayor Fadness says this will provide more transparency with the finances of the Center, apart from other city finances and funds.