Lest it get lost in the noise over noise
Greene Street's lawyer, Norman Klick, says he could successfully challenge this ordinance in court as discriminatory because it exempts some facilities, including the ballpark and the Coliseum.
I have no idea how it would play out in court, but I'd guess a lot of people would object to privileging some noisemakers over others, especially with that populist vibe brewing downtown.
The only argument I would say that does take precedent is that the person who wanted to allow smoking at gate city billboards based his case on why did certain non profits and country clubs get exempted from smoking ban while he tried to change his name to say he was a country club to allow smoking like the other establishments did, I think it went to state supreme court but to no avail
Posted by: Triadwatch | Apr 05, 2012 at 09:25 AM
To me it seems their biggest problem would be that like the clubs, the ballpark is privately owned. Had they only exempted government owned venues they might have a chance at keeping this unnecessary ordnance but to exempt a privately owned business from a law aimed at privately owned businesses will come back to bite them in their butts.
Posted by: Billy Jones | Apr 05, 2012 at 09:38 AM
Noise haters probably consider the fireworks to be unnecessary ordnance.
Posted by: Andrew Brod | Apr 05, 2012 at 10:00 AM
"Noise haters probably consider the fireworks to be unnecessary ordnance."
LOL Remember when the ball park promoters were wanting to fire a cannon with every Grasshopper's home run?
Posted by: Billy Jones | Apr 05, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I can't wait until the Hoppers have a marathon 20 inning game on a night where fireworks are scheduled after the game. Another neat alternative would be for the Hoppers to book a "Battle of the Bands" concert for a post night game show at the park.
Those scenarios would be fun to watch play out.
Posted by: bubba | Apr 05, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Sight pollution will be next.
Wouldn't it be nice if they threw a downtown and nobody came ?
Posted by: Spag | Apr 05, 2012 at 12:56 PM
How about light pollution? Lights out at midnight!
Posted by: Mick | Apr 05, 2012 at 06:16 PM
Spag asked, "Wouldn't it be nice if they threw a downtown and nobody came ?"
No, 'cause then they'd want us to pay for it. ;-)
Posted by: Billy Jones | Apr 05, 2012 at 07:26 PM
This is a classic case of people getting what they voted for........
Posted by: sittinginthemiddle | Apr 06, 2012 at 03:09 PM