RE: Vancouver Urban Noise Task Force

[Peter Donnelly <skookum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know a lot about it. Apparently it grew out of citizen complaints. 
We didn't initiate it, though we were invited to participate, and our 
member Roy Silverston worked hard on it.

Actually I met Roy today in Vancouver, along with a few of our other 
mainland members, and Roy gave a report on the latest status of the report. 
The city asked its various departments to comment on the sections of the 
report that pertained to them. They all basically said, "Yeah, sounds 
good", except that for some reason the recommendations on "residential 
maintenance noise" (gardening equipment, carpet cleaners, etc.) were 
rejected out of hand. The city adopted he report with that specified 
exception, and the next step is for the various departments to present 
plans for implementation, or reasons why specific things cannot be 
implemented (e.g. they may require money, or be in another jurisdiction).

That's my understanding of what Roy said; I may have got the details wrong, 
but in general it seems that though the city hasn't committed itself to 
anything concrete, it is _not_ just filing the report away, as is the usual 
practice with Royal Commissions and things of that sort. Things are moving 
in a positive direction.

Peter Donnelly
Right to Quiet Society
http://www.islandnet.com/~skookum/quiet/



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From: 	Noise - Citizens Against[SMTP:cg343@freenet.toronto.on.ca]
Reply To: 	quiet-list@igc.org
Sent: 	Friday, June 06, 1997 4:42 PM
To: 	Quiet-list
Subject: 	Re: Vancouver Urban Noise Task Force

Hi Peter,

 Do you know how the whole Task Force Study got its start? From its
genesis to the actual report? Thanks.

- Eric

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