All that 'good neighbor' stuff?
Doesn't apply to Michael Zimmerman and his "ROC" sports complex in Franklin.
There are serious complaints about the noise level coming from that landfill. Neighbors as far as a mile away complain about the noise, even inside their homes. While wind-direction and humidity levels always affect sound transmission, a recent report tells us that the monitor stations don't work.
...The Rock’s owners refused to allow a sound study team commissioned by the Milwaukee County access to their facilities or sound monitors, but Franklin city officials eventually revealed that two of the development’s three monitors weren’t operable, and the remaining one hadn’t been calibrated for four years.
That’s according to the new sound study and attorney’s summary accompanying it.
The study found that the city isn’t proactively enforcing sound concerns at the Rock but rather places the burden on citizens who live nearby “to enforce the noise standard” by making complaints. Franklin officials then enforce complaints by gathering “unreliable” data from the inoperable or non-calibrated monitors, using a flawed ordinance and development agreement that makes violations almost impossible to achieve, the documents say....
Well, it can't be all that bad, can it? After all, Franklin officials don't seem to mind--and if they do, the agreement they signed ..........yah. They signed it. They had a case of 'the hots' at the time, lusting for tax revenues. And yes, it can be that bad:
... The attorney’s summary of the sound monitoring study found that various activities at the Rock “are clearly capable, as a result of their volume and nature, to annoy, irritate, and disrupt the quiet enjoyment, and disturb the sleep, of residents in Franklin and Greendale neighborhoods adjacent to the ROC — during both daytime and nighttime hours.”...
Michael should get this fixed, now. His "Zimmerman Privilege" card expired a few years ago.
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