UPDATE: Video here. A noise-issue speaker at around 1:20, topic resumes for real at 1:31, Carroll just after 3:00. /update
Big crowd for the City Council noise rules debate tonight.
Roy Carroll speaks after a guy [Matty Sheets] advocating a limit of 250,000 decibels and before him a lot of other antis. Carroll says, I have an obligation to speak up. This didn't start when I moved downtown. I did the good neighbor thing, I called Mr. Efird, this was spring and summer of 2010. The issue has been ongoing. The content, explicit and pornographic songs being broadcast [derisive laughter from the gallery] I have the lyrics written down. We can't regulate content. People coming out of Triad Stage with their kids and grandkids have to listen to this garbage.
He is followed by David McLean of King's English, who says it's a creative culture issue, and some limits make sense but maybe this case can be mediated.
[Disclaimer, ripped off from the estimable Dr. Weinberger: "NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned, people."]
Talk talk talk.
Read the whole thing after the jump.
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