Winston-Salem officials are weighing updates to the city’s noise ordinance ahead of the construction of a controversial downtown music venue.
The city approved the 5,000-seat amphitheater near the Benton Convention Center in September. Since then, Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe says the venue’s developers have voiced concerns about how the current ordinance is written.
“That it was too subjective,” he said. “That basically it left the decision about whether something violates the ordinance at the discretion of a law enforcement officer or a magistrate.”…