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.
How does the noise ordinance impact Conner Prairie and the Arena? Does this mean they have to dial it down? No late concerts?
Based on the comments by the mayor and FPD, this ordinance language is aimed at outdoor venues with outdoor music and other loud activity, close to residential areas. it is unlikely Conner Prairie or the Events Center would be impacted, but the wording of the ordinance has not yet been finalized.
Funny that FPD and the city council are more concerned about the noise of concerts and social activities than citing/fining those who willingly violate the noise ordinance on a regular basis. I think we could definitely fund a couple of positions within FPD if they’d start pulling the vehicles on 116th street that violate state motoring law with vehicles that have been altered to amplify the sounds of their engines. (IC 9-19-8-3 Operation of muffler or noise dissipative device) –It’s beyond annoying to have vehicles that are louder than my living room tv sound system where the windows closed…
This was discussed at Wednesday’s Council session, specifically the vehicles altered raising the sound level.
I totally agree, I’ve lived in Fishers for a little over 2 years now near 141st/Cumberland and this is probably my biggest frustration. There are many nights every week where there are very loud cars easily heard, and for considerable distances. If noise level is being discussed, this absolutely needs to be part of the enforcement.
Low hanging is the best type of fruit , traffic enforcement ; a moving target.
FPD for the most part doesn’t seem to enforce much in the way of any traffic violations along 116th or elsewhere.
There’s a law on the books regarding cell phone usage too , which unlike a noise statute, does have the potential to save lives, it’s not enforced either.
Hey Larry, request a copy of police activity for a given weekday – it’d be interesting to see just how those officers spend their time.
You’ll likely have to file a FOI request for that though ..