![]() That isn’t the only potential cost for nightclubs. “It’s kind of ludicrous to me that somebody should be able to affect thousands of dollars of commerce,” Sherman says. It’s unclear whether the shunt breaker, which several Glenwood businesses already have installed, would be used solely for emergency purposes, but pressing the kill switch on a busy night could cost that business revenue, says Glenwood South DJ Jeffrey Sherman. In addition to heightening security presence and safety measures for nightclubs with parking lots, every establishment is required to provide the manager’s name and contact information so that it’s available to the public, as well as to install a shunt trip breaker, also known as a “kill switch,” that can eliminate all sound from sound-producing devices, special lights, jukeboxes, and any other electronic devices with the press of a button. The nightclub permit itself requires a number of steps. ![]() All nightclubs will require a nightclub permit. The proposed nightclub permit does away with AEPs and HDEPs entirely, instead proposing a new definition, in which any establishment that uses 10 percent of its standing space for dancing, has live or recorded entertainment, and allows the consumption of alcoholic beverages qualifies as a nightclub. Glenwood South was considered a hospitality district, so bars and clubs on the strip could apply for an HDEP that would allow “amplified entertainment for special events on the establishment’s premises not otherwise permitted in a hospitality district,” according to the permit. In 2014, the Raleigh City Council adopted a system for amplified entertainment permits (AEPs) and hospitality district entertainment permits (HDEPs). The other proposed ordinance, the nightclub permit, focuses almost entirely on safety, scrapping the existing entertainment permitting process for an entirely new model-and threatening fines as high as $5,000 for first-time noncompliance with the new rules. “I am all for having that cultural, fun, booming Glenwood South area, but we have to get a handle on these other issues or it’s all going to go away.” “I do think that a lot of what we’re seeing now, with the spillover into the neighborhoods and the destruction of personal property and gun violence-we have to address that or it is going to become a much bigger problem,” Melton says. Safety on the strip has been a hot topic this summer after two shootings took place in a span of two months, as well as a rise in drug dealing, weapons, larceny, and assaults. The proposed reasonable person standard would cut out reliance on machinery entirely and instead would depend on residents to call in complaints to police officers, who would have the onus of deciding whether the noise is unreasonable before issuing a citation to the business that’s causing the amplified sound.īut sound concerns aren’t the only thing weighing on the neighborhoods and streets of Glenwood South. “And so when you have an area that’s generally loud, it’s difficult to enforce it because you can’t prove that it’s coming from one certain place.” “My understanding is that with the machines that they were using before, it’s difficult or impossible to actually precisely trace it back to a single source of noise,” Melton says. The proposed noise ordinance doesn’t make any changes to the fines that businesses receive for noise complaints but rather to the means of enforcing those complaints, says Melton. ![]() Currently, that system is based on decibel readings that police officers take, but the ordinance would switch it over to a reasonable person standard, in which, during nighttime hours, any “reasonable person” standing more than 150 feet away from the source of the sound can report noise that they deem unacceptably loud.Īccording to the ordinance, a reasonable person is defined as “a person of normal and ordinary sensitivities who is within the area of the audibility or perceptibility of the noise or vibration that transmits sounds which disrupt the reasonable conduct of basic human activities, such as conversation, sleep, work and other such activities.” The noise ordinance would change Raleigh’s system of noise regulation for the district. ![]() “But on weekend nights, it’s an entertainment district and you get tens of thousands of individuals that come here to party.” “They choose to live here in Glenwood South because it’s a great community, it’s walkable, it has a lot of amenities around,” Miller says. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox.
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