The city of Santa Monica is asking a judge to declare the two Waymo LLC Broadway recharging stations public nuisances and order that overnight operations be curtailed due to the effects of noise and lighting on nearby residents.
The city’s court papers, filed Dec. 24 in Beverly Hills Superior Court, say those who live near the stations have used such terms as “mini-Las Vegas,” “living next door to a spaceship,” “a circus” and “a city that never sleeps” to describe their plight.
Residents also say they hear workers’ whole conversations in normal speaking voices in the middle of the night, along with all the other sounds the Waymo cars make, which “echo off buildings along the alleys like a canyon,” according to the city’s court papers, which state that lights from cars and awnings are more glaring when it is dark…