The City of Raleigh has been struggling with regulating noise since you could buy a cup of coffee for a dollar at the Morning Times—or even before. And last week, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled that parts of the city’s nightlife permit ordinance—a separate but related regulation from Raleigh’s noise ordinance—are illegal after a local bar owner sued the city over it.
But even before that judgement came down, officials were considering making changes to the “Turn Down the Sound” rules, and the city is taking public comments to help with the process.
Julia Milstead, a spokesperson for the City of Raleigh, told the INDY that the ruling on the nightlife ordinance “does not impact the engagement we’ve been doing regarding the noise ordinance.”…