I caught some flack from some of my Salemtown neighbors for coming down on the Bound'ry restaurant for its urbane and hip noise violations, which were keeping Midtown residents up some late nights. That's me: the party spoiler.
Now the Salemtown e-list is buzzing with drama over what has become over the past few weeks a regular street party on 6th Avenue, North with a lot of noise egged on by alcohol consumption. Parents are starting to complain about the revels disrupting the peace on school nights. Police have been called by several residents.
I'm not reading or hearing any more S-town lectures yet about how we don't live in the suburbs and how residents just need to submit to late night intoxicated party noise as a part of city living. Perhaps you think a little differently when the nuisance is in your own back yard or plaguing families with kids just around the block.
Actually, I didn't even notice the noise;). I've gotten so used to all the random sounds around here that I don't even notice the gun shots anymore.
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Well, then, I guess you won't mind too much if put-upon neighbors who live a few blocks away from you send the drunken yard-urinators and gangstas down to your place on some future school night.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, the sleep-deprived kids need to suck it up. Right?
Lol, no they don't have to suck it up:). Obviously there needs to be some noise control in urban settings, whether it be in midtown or in our neighborhood. But there seems to be a tendancy of extreme when people are wanting to control various elements in their neighborhood. Instead of finding common ground, the baby is all too often thrown out with the bathwater. If the request is to "turn the volume down a bit", thats completely reasonable. But if the request is "no music and no parties after 11pm", than its not reasonable (which is very common; get rid of the "whole" problem instead of fixing something) because then we are trying to dictate other peoples lives as if they were our own. I am in no way saying you are saying that, but there are plenty of people out there who do say such things. And those people tend to turn a unique and diverse community into an obnoxious cookie-cutter suburban neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI just want to see balance in the urban areas of Nashville, especially Salemtown, and i believe you do as well. We just articulate things differently;)
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