Noise Abatement Act
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Review commissioned by amphitheater neighbors raises issues with sound monitors
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A peer-reviewed study paid for by a group of Colorado Springs residents backed up several of the issues neighbors have raised with sound levels coming from concerts at Ford Amphitheater. The report was completed July 8 by Dudek Engineering, a California-based engineering firm that specializes in acoustic and noise-control consultations. The Dudek review looked through…
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Colorado Supreme Court skeptical of broad municipal power to permit violations of state noise limits
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court attempted on Thursday to decipher a 38-year-old amendment to the state’s noise pollution law to determine if local governments may permit any for-profit entity to host events on private property that exceed the statewide decibel limits. In doing so, multiple justices were openly skeptical of the city of Salida’s…
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Appeals court splits with itself on statewide noise limits, sets up Supreme Court intervention
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday set the stage for Supreme Court intervention by finding local governments cannot authorize concerts on private, for-profit land to exceed noise limits under state law — three months after another set of appellate judges reached the opposite conclusion. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the state’s Noise Abatement Act…
