A chronological account, built from documents the City of Yonkers produced only after being sued. In November 2023, the Yonkers City Council raised the daytime noise limit for residential properties…
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Why would the Yonkers City Council vote to give Yonkers one of the worst noise ordinances in America? Investigative journalist David MacKay Wilson has published an in depth account of…
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Our petition against the Yonkers noise ordinance just crossed 1,500 signatures — 306 in the last 30 days, our fastest growth since launch. If each of you forwards this email…
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Last spring, now almost a year ago, things were looking up. In mid-May, all the candidates running for City Council President committed to a reconsiderations of the noise ordianance. If…
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The three-member Yonkers Board of Ethics ruled Tasha Diaz did nothing wrong when she accepted a $1,000 campaign contribution and then shortly thereafter introduced the now infamous ordinance that radically…
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There's one go-to organization, and one go-to guy, for information about local noise regulations. He's Les Blomberg, founder of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse. Blomberg has been tracking noise ordinances in…
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When the city council passed the egregiously flawed 2023 noise ordinance, the result was to raise the city's daytime noise limit to 85 decibels, a limit that a nationally recognized…
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In a shocking and unannounced vote, the City Council voted to affirm the discredited and harmful Yonkers noise limits. With an 85 decibels day time noise limit -- perhaps the…
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SO WE'VE WON, RIGHT? UNFORTUNATELY, NO 814 citizens have signed. A majority of the City Council now wants to reconsider the noise ordinance. All candidates in the recent City Council…
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Yonkers City Council President Lakisha Collins-Bellamy By Peter Cohn We may now have majority support on the City Council for a reconsideration of the 2023 noise ordinance that radically…
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