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wd011 t1_iuxbg2n wrote

Ordinances likely exist. Enforcement also unlikely. There may be an uptick in daytime noise related complaints due to the large increase in the work from home workforce, so who knows?

https://www.howardcountymd.gov/sites/default/files/media/2016-09/OPS-05%20Noise%20Ordinance%20Enforcement.pdf

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Edit to add: the leaf blower brigade is now outside my house as I'm working from home. Although we also have a contractor who uses one at our residence. (The current one at my immediate neighbors). But all those guys are like 20 mins once a week. Not every day for hours.

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chairmanm30w OP t1_iuy5xsi wrote

I've never experienced anything like what's going on in my neighborhood. It literally goes on for hours a day, multiple days a week. And now looking outside, their yards are once again full of leaves because we (checks notes) live in the woods.

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ROIDTECH1 t1_ivegrkq wrote

edited as I think you live on the street I mentioned

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JimboFett87 t1_iuxw8uu wrote

The noise ordinance is only for certain situations and mostly at night.

I had a bad neighbor running an extremely loud generator less than thirty feet from my bedroom and the police couldn't do anything unless it was a)after 10 PM, I think, and at a certain decibel level measured by the police's calibrated equipment.

I feel for you. Columbia can be a freaking noisy place.

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