Tuesday, the city of Reno invited owners of entertainment companies and concerned residents of the Town Hall to discuss the update of live entertainment standards, the main objective being noise limits.
Some existing bars in certain areas of Reno benefit from live entertainment without noise -free restrictions, while new establishments are faced with different regulations requiring a specific conditional use permit for their location.
“What we are trying to do is create a uniform playground for people and businesses, and a certain predictability and consistency in our code,” said Kathleen Taylor, Reno City advisor.
The city staff proposed to introduce new noise limits to C scale to cap the noise levels at 80 decibels beyond 11 p.m., which is an idea that frustrates the local resident and director of the Kristin Inman bar.
“As (Reno) Brewery District, what we are trying to do is bringing back entertainment live and advancing local groups … We spend all this time, money. And energy putting a new patio. And if we are going to be forced. It is only a thing that we have to face,” said Inman.
The restriction offered at all levels was music to the ears of the downtown resident Art Rangell, which was frustrated by the police presence at the end of the evening which, according to him, takes place the weekend after the weekend.
“There are very good bars in the city center, but there are some very bad players who create an enormous amount of excessive noise, then finds himself in the row and finally the crime,” said Rangell.
Other subjects in Reunion included updating the hours of operating hours and a security plan control list for cabaret licenses.
The city said it would take the comments from Tuesday’s meeting and use it to potentially make changes to its proposal. They plan to keep another meeting on the subject on a later date