Currently, the City does not regulate hours of construction activities. Staff says that it has received constant complaints from city residents of contractors working any hour under the Sun. Staff decided to create an ordinance, 2014-4 that will regulate the hours of construction activities.
William Waters proposed a 7am to 7pm time frame, Monday through Friday; 8am to 6pm on Saturdays and no work on Sundays. After much discussion from the dais with commissioner Szerdi opposed to 7am saying "it is too early" and Scott Maxwell for it because he doesn't want to put obstacles in the path of businesses, the public spoke. Consensus was--7am was way too early.
The ordinance passed unanimously on the first reading and the new hours will be 8am to 7pm and Saturday and Sunday will remain unchanged from staff's proposal.
4 comments:
Good move. Some of these construction guys like to start at the crack of dawn when the rest of us are still in bed. Totally sucks.
From May through September, 7 AM is a much more reasonable start time as anyone who has worked during these hot and humid months will tell you.
It is likely that none of the Commissioners has done any construction work or they would know that workers like to start early to get used to the heat gradually.
Is this a business friendly ordinance?
Well, Laurence, this is a people friendly ordinance. It's not about when construction workers WANT to work; it is about when we the people want them to work. :) Construction workers would work til midnight if we allowed it. You sound like Scott Maxwell. Still luv ya, baby!
I fully support the idea behind this ordinance, but really, what is the point in passing ordinances when there is no enforcement. PBSO won't enforce local ordinances, ever call them about parking or an abandoned crashed car?? Do you really think PBSO is going to respond to call on too early construction noise? So, then who would enforce this? Code, perhaps, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. They don't do even basic code enforcement as is, why give them something else.
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