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I moved into this little neighborhood when I came to Davis. It is literally one dead end street whose houses are boxed in by fields on one side, a road on another, and other neighborhoods on the other two.

Supposedly it is a nice, quiet place to live. There's even a neighborhood watch program that will leave you nasty notes if you leave your trash cans out on the curb for too long (...yeah).

Somehow this little place is the noisiest place I've ever lived in my entire life.
Each morning is another new distraction. Today, since 8 am, there has been: a pavement saw, a jackhammer, a pressure washer, some heavy equipment, a leaf blower, two lawn mowers, and a weed whacker.
Not to mention all of the supporting workers and trucks and back up alarms.
Normally there are two little kids who wake up and go out to play first thing right below my window.

It's fucking bizarre. I can't study and my girlfriend can't sleep.

Grrrrr.

you should be able to call someone in the city who deals with the noise ordinance. They will come out and deal with the noise jackasses, especially if it is as loud as you say it is.

Here is your code:
Chapter 24 NOISE REGULATIONS
24.02.040 Special provisions.

(a)Power Tools. The operation of power tools for non-commercial purposes shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 24.02.020 (a), (b), (c) and 24.02.030, between the hours of eight a.m. and eight p.m.; provided, that such operations shall be subject to the provisions of 24.05.010. For purposes of this section, a noncommercial use shall be a use for which a business license is not required pursuant to Chapter 19.

(b)Construction and Landscape Maintenance Equipment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, between the hours of seven a.m. and seven p.m. on Mondays through Fridays, and between the hours of eight a.m. and eight p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, construction, alteration, repair or maintenance activities which are authorized by valid city permit or business license, or carried out by employees of contractors of the city shall be allowed if they meet at least one of the following noise limitations:

(1)No individual piece of equipment shall produce a noise level exceeding eightythree dBA at a distance of twenty-five feet. If the device is housed within a structure on the property, the measurement shall be made outside the structure at a distance as close to twenty feet from the equipment as possible.

(2)The noise level at any point outside of the property plane of the project shall not exceed eightysix dBA.

(3)The provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection shall not be applicable to impact tools and equipment; provided, that such impact tools and equipment shall have intake and exhaust mufflers recommended by manufacturers thereof and approved by the Director of Public Works as best accomplishing maximum noise attenuation, and that pavement breakers and jackhammers shall also be equipped with acoustically attenuating shields or shrouds recommended by the manufacturers thereof and approved by the Director of Public Works as best accomplishing maximum noise attenuation. In the absence of manufacturer's recommendations, the Director of Public Works may prescribe such means of accomplishing maximum noise attenuation as he/she may determine to be in the public interest.

Construction projects located more than two hundred feet from existing homes may request a special use permit to begin work at six a.m. on weekdays from June 15th until September 1st. No percussion type tools (such as ramsets or jackhammers) can be used before seven a.m. The permit shall be revoked if any noise complaint is received by the police department.

(4)No individual powered blower shall produce a noise level exceeding 70 dBA measured at a distance of fifty (50) feet.

(5)No powered blower shall be operated within one hundred (100) feet radius of another powered blower simultaneously.

(6)On single-family residential property, the 70 dBA at fifty (50) feet restriction shall not apply if operated for less than ten (10) minutes per occurrence.

Where did you live before?

When I lived at Colfax and Steele in downtown Denver, I couldn't hear sirens or car crashes unless someone pointed them out.

Now that I live by the park in a tiny rural town, I can hear bicycles ride by and it's RUINING MY GODDAMN MOVIE!!

Just a thought.

I've heard gunshots the last two nights in a row, both around 1 AM. Oh wait, there are no guns in Canada. Yeah, right.

It's friday and so far, not a single emergency vehicle with siren going to clear the intersection right beneath my window, no pack of ATVs and souped-up scooters with open exhausts racing, none of the TGIF party crowd with their stereo playing acid-house turned up to elenteen hundred decibels and no trams arguing for road space with their bells (yes, actual bells).

It's eerily quiet, just the cars and the loose manhole cover that knocks about when it's being driven over...it's too quiet, it is.

We live out in the sticks and there's always someone mowing their lawn.
There's a house being worked on about three hundred yards away and they use an air compressor that they don't turn off when they leave at the end of the day, so it switches on and off all night.
Pick'emup trucks laying a patch.
And, the most mysterious, a humming noise I can hear that comes from somewhere almost due west of us that starts around 6 a.m. every day of the year. I have yet to figure out what it is. It could be a generator but doesn't sound like a motor. It just humms. I can't even tell how far away it is.

Unless you want to live in the arctic, there'll be noise. We used to think it was quiet out here after living in town, but the more quiet it is, you end up being more sensitive to noise.

I don't live in the sticks. While isolated from population density, I can always hear the highway (like, 1/4 mile away) and the train tracks, which are just on the other side of the highway.
I've lived in the woods, I've lived right off of Colfax on Capitol Hill (Denver), and Mission St. in Santa Cruz (both are main drags with shitloads of noise and traffic). I've gone the whole gambit of noisy and quiet neighborhoods, and the mornings in this one are seriously ridiculous.

BUT!

Today I woke up to an eerie quiet. The freeway wasn't even making much sound. It was a BEAUTIFUL thing!!!!!!!!!!

An eerie quiet like the one in Apocalypse Now right before the tiger attacks Willard and Chef?

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WeAintFoundShit wrote:I moved into this little neighborhood when I came to Davis. It is literally one dead end street whose houses are boxed in by fields on one side, a road on another, and other neighborhoods on the other two.

Supposedly it is a nice, quiet place to live. There's even a neighborhood watch program that will leave you nasty notes if you leave your trash cans out on the curb for too long (...yeah).

Somehow this little place is the noisiest place I've ever lived in my entire life.

Welcom to suburban hell. I worked 3rd shift for a numner of years. It was damn near impossible to sleep during the weekend days with all the noise going on.

The Hanta House is the quietest abode I've ever lived in, in spite of it's proximity to the trains, trucks, and airport.

My neighborhood dwellings have been WAY louder- usually barking dogs and lawnmowers, with a smattering of boomin' car audio, and raucus conversations.

The quietest place I ever lived in was my warehouse, in a mostly commercial district in the inner city. Dead quiet after 6pm, no lawns or leafblowers, on a basically dead end street so no traffic.

Second quietest was rural/suburban NJ in a county with more old folks per capita than anywhere in Florida.

My neighborhood in Baltimore was all kinds of loud and irritating, but the gunshots and screaming were easier to drown out than the police helicopters and super-loud car systems with mega bass. The worst was really the wind that howled through there, scared the hell out of the wife and cats, to the point that they could only sleep if I was awake. Really, wind or not, they could only sleep when I was awake.

Capitol Hill in Denver was pretty bad only because of the domestic crap that seemed to be everywhere. A constant parade of hubbies yelling at each other in the street, and cops coming in for hours to deal with it. It was like a never-ending episode of COPS right outside the window 24/7. The most irritating was that stupid series of beeps the cop's walkie-talkies made every time they yapped. Brothah Crazy Gimpy Rob has a theory that it's a subliminal message and if you slow it down it says "GottaGetADonut".

As for the digs here in Oregon, it's really quiet other than the tree frogs, wolves howling at the moon and on Wednesdays the lawn mowing crew comes out for about six hours with every implement imaginable and makes a shitload of racket. The other night I heard this weird creepy howling sound that I couldn't quite place, took me a minute or two to realize it was a police siren way off in the distance

Beemer Dan wrote: Capitol Hill in Denver was pretty bad only because of the domestic crap that seemed to be everywhere. A constant parade of hubbies yelling at each other in the street, and cops coming in for hours to deal with it.

This reminds me of the time I got to show a bunch of Denver cops my penis.

MagnusTheBuilder wrote:

Beemer Dan wrote: Capitol Hill in Denver was pretty bad only because of the domestic crap that seemed to be everywhere. A constant parade of hubbies yelling at each other in the street, and cops coming in for hours to deal with it.

This reminds me of the time I got to show a bunch of Denver cops my penis.

Just because the dancers were wearing cop uniforms, doesn't mean those guys were actually cops, dude.

MagnusTheBuilder wrote:

Beemer Dan wrote: Capitol Hill in Denver was pretty bad only because of the domestic crap that seemed to be everywhere. A constant parade of hubbies yelling at each other in the street, and cops coming in for hours to deal with it.

This reminds me of the time I got to show a bunch of Denver cops my penis.

Good times!
"I swear officer, we were sleeping... not fighting. How many people fight butt ass naked at 8 am on Sunday morning... in bed? "

East Goatfuck is isolated, hundreds and hundreds of miles from anyway interesting... but it's so quiet here! I'm really going to miss that aspect of it when I do finally move on.

Sisyphus wrote:And, the most mysterious, a humming noise I can hear that comes from somewhere almost due west of us that starts around 6 a.m. every day of the year. I have yet to figure out what it is. It could be a generator but doesn't sound like a motor. It just humms.

Man, you don't happen to live under high voltage power lines? Time to start covering your helmet with alfoil and wearing that bastard all day, every day.

Jonny wrote:

Sisyphus wrote:And, the most mysterious, a humming noise I can hear that comes from somewhere almost due west of us that starts around 6 a.m. every day of the year. I have yet to figure out what it is. It could be a generator but doesn't sound like a motor. It just humms.

Man, you don't happen to live under high voltage power lines? Time to start covering your helmet with alfoil and wearing that bastard all day, every day.

Fuck. I do.
They are behind my house, so I didn't realize it until after I moved in.