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Perhaps you have read this article.

I would like to clarify: I don't think anybody living in any residential area should have to tolerate loud noise coming from commercial areas. But the way this noise ordinance is currently enforced is ridiculous.

When somebody has a complaint about noise in Ybor City, they should find the source of the noise that's creating the disturbance, instead of subjecting everybody to a specific DB requirement that makes no sense. In other words, a resident on 5th ave and 19th st may be bothered by a thumping bass coming from a particular club. The officers should determine the source of that particular complaint, and compel that specific offender to lower the volume. Instead, they go up and down 7th Ave. in Ybor City, standing in the doorways of individual businesses with a meter that measures DBs. Although our band is generating no complaints from residents, when the enforcement agent stands in our doorway, he can usually get a reading that puts us in violation of the ordinance. Meanwhile, for whatever reason, the disco/techno mega-clubs are pumping out bass like a war zone!

Dear City of Tampa Government: we love you, but get off our backs, and let us ROCK! If you must, go after the REAL offenders, those with the teeth rattling bass that vibrates homes all night. Or perhaps, enforce the noise ordinance at the Ford Ampitheatre (ok, i know that's the county not the city, but still...). We aint botherin nobody!