Woodwork just as bad as leaf blowers

I am reading an article from the May 22 Daily Pilot about how we are

going to get a new chief of police here in Costa Mesa. Actually, it

looks like he started his job June 16. And he wants to be the

people’s chief and hear about our concerns. And I saw here that there

is a hotline I can call with stuff that concerns me.

I find it disturbing that in this city they have a noise ordinance

that doesn’t allow, for instance, for leaf blowers to go longer than

a certain amount of time, or car alarms can’t go off for a certain

amount of time. However, it allows people to sit in their garages and

run power tools for countless hours on end.

I have a neighbor who has a supposed hobby of woodworking, and he

sits in his garage day in and day out running power tools that are

just so miserably loud. The police won’t do anything about it, the

city won’t do anything about it, but it is totally affecting my

quality of life. It is just downright annoying as can be.

I find it amusing that a city that won’t even allow me to leave my

trash cans on the curb pass the day of trash pick-up and can fight me

on that because they think it is ugly, won’t allow me to report a

disturbing of the peace. This noise is ugly, too.

CRAIG GARDNER

Costa Mesa