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Objective Standards Sought

To Control Noise Downtown

ZEO Jane Gentile, standing, briefs the Village Board this evening on progress toward developing a noise ordinance. (Patrick Wager/AllOTSEGO.com)

By PATRICK WAGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Mayor Tillapaugh wants a model to follow.

COOPERSTOWN – The village trustees this evening directed Zoning Enforcement Officer Jane Gentile to explore noise ordinances in other communities for objective standards that might be applied here.

“We need some guidelines,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, “something that is enforceable and has some teeth to it.”

The Village Board has been discussing noise ordinances for some time as a result of bands performing downtown during the summer months, a new development in recent years.

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