{"id":54901,"date":"2015-08-25T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54901"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:36:45","slug":"theyll-know-it-when-they-hear-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54901","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll Know It When They Hear It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como \u00a0Park emails about some noise ordinance litigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2,000 rounds fired per weekend, too noisy, annoyed the neighbors.\u00a0 He might have been alright if he\u2019d applied for the correct permits up front, instead of trying to sneak in under the agricultural exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The troubling thing about the opinion is the statute says no local jurisdiction can impose noise levels more strict than PCA.\u00a0 So how can they complain about noise?\u00a0 Because PCA hasn\u2019t issued noise levels for shooting events, and the local ordinance didn\u2019t set any. \u00a0The commission acted on their gut instinct in deciding it was too loud.\u00a0 That\u2019s worthless as a standard \u2013 how loud is too loud?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe something for GOCRA to consider, working with agency staff to develop acceptable noise levels?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing you learn in Saint Paul, it&#8217;s that government prefers rules to be handed down by oral tradition. \u00a0More leeway that way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como \u00a0Park emails about some noise ordinance litigation: 2,000 rounds fired per weekend, too noisy, annoyed the neighbors.\u00a0 He might have been alright if he\u2019d applied for the correct permits up front, instead of trying to sneak in under the agricultural exemption. The troubling thing about the opinion is the statute says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54908,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54901\/revisions\/54908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}