08-21-2017, 01:11 PM
(08-21-2017, 12:51 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(08-21-2017, 09:17 AM)Coke6pk Wrote: They do have nothing to stand on, correct.
I was one of those NIMBY's in my old residence. I backed onto farmland, that was zoned to commercial. They built a gas station, a Starbucks, a bank, and I never one complained about the loss of my nice view. What I did complain about was the tire shop immediately behind my home. They had auto bays on both side of the building, so that I had five auto bay doors 80' from my bedroom window. I had non-stop impact wrench noises all thru the day. The city was very ineffective in helping (They did pay for consultants who's report stated the noise level was "uninhabitable" without a highway style noise barrier between the properties), but all we got was a cosmetic wooden fence. (I get the city was stuck between a rock and a hard place as they couldn't really enforce noise by-laws, as they were the ones who approved the design). I was on the front page of the paper, spoke to radio hosts, even ran a local campaign urging to boycott the business [Only because he became confrontational, and unwilling to close bay doors and actually started doing frequent "vehicle horn checks" when me or my neighbours were in their backyards].
Anyway, my new home backs onto the Grand River and I'm hopeful that it won't be developed!
Yet another planning fail. Here we have an actual nuisance that apparently is legalized by the zoning (but, does being zoned for auto shop really authorize what would otherwise be a noise bylaw violation?). Meanwhile, zoning is forbidding all sorts of perfectly harmless uses all over the city.
Seems to me zoning should only allow the auto shop to operate — but the proximity to residential use should require them to keep it quiet. I mean, literally as quiet as a corner store. Not sure what that means for their operations but that’s not my problem. Probably sound-insulated doors kept closed and everybody stops whenever the doors are opened for a vehicle to enter or leave.
Yes, I had many "Off the record" conversations with senior officials from the city, and its an issue that hasn't replicated since, and most likely never will.
It's no longer my issue tho...
Coke