Nuisance Noise Stupidity Continues
Last night the Fullerton City Council was presented with a noise ordinance, the principal target being the bar-owning noise scofflaws in Downtown Fullerton. It was basically the same thing that was sent back to the Planning Commission due to its utter insufficiency. Fullerton. Being. Fullerton.
FFFF has documented ad nauseam the comical efforts of the City to address this issue over the past 15 years. I’m not even going to review the dance of death anymore. You can follow the entire history, here.
Here’s an example of what happens when a scofflaw “club” blasts noise from their establishment.
Now imagine three or four of these establishments doing the same thing at the same time.
But back to a brief synopsis. Basically, there have been two forces working hard in City Hall to continue this embarrassing, bungling misadventure in government activity.
First has been the gymnastic effort to protect the lawbreakers by refusing enforcement of the law because “changes are on the way” a cunning and never ending Dickensian dodge. We know that our former Mayor-for-Hire Jennifer Fitzgerald and her Planning Director Ted White were actively running interference for the scofflaw bar/club owners.
The second active force has been the continual effort to water down the code, making enforcement so difficult as to look impossible, thus relieving Code Enforcement and the cops from having to do their jobs. This is the shrug-it-off position of Community Development Director Sunaya Thomas and her predecessors, one and all.
Last night the a majority of the council chose a second option with changes, but an option that had no draft ordinance to accompany it. The only draft presented to the council and the public was to accept what was given to them as the favored staff recommendation.
But then, abracadabra, City Attorney Dick Jones produced an Option 2 draft ordinance from his back pocket almost like a magician summoning a rabbit from a top hat! Mr. Jones declared that the council could approve his newly minted draft, unread, and read up on it and modify it before the obligatory “second reading” in a couple weeks. Unpersuasive.
The council voted 5-0 to bring the damn thing back in two weeks to yak about all over again.
One unintentionally amusing observation during the discussion was made by Shana Charles, who wondered aloud if curtailing the amplified musical free-for-all might not end in the demise of outdoor dining in downtown Fullerton. I can’t really say I’m surprised that something so dumb was uttered by one of Fullerton’s professional know-it-alls.
You guys should change this blog name to FRIENDS FOR FULLERTONS RENT SEEKERS
I prefer ENEMIES OF FULLERTON BUSINESSES
What does that mean?
Quit responding to your own posts.
What does that mean?
A rent seeker is an individual who gains wealth by exploiting economic or political systems, rather than creating value or new wealth.
This is the story of Tony Bushala and it has significantly damaged Fullerton
What do you call someone who snuck in the country illegally, who shamelessly self-promotes, who hits women, who steals other people’s work and who would just love to damage Fullerton except that he can’t get more than two votes?
Ahmad Zahra.
So you agree Tony Bushala is a rent seeker?
Wait…. So the Council ignored the consultant they hired and listened to Tony instead??? Talk about corruption!
And a waste of money! Didn’t we hire an acoustic engineer who made these recommendations. I hadn’t realized Tony was also an acoustic engineer, what a talent!
They’re smart if they did. The proposal was idiotic.
Did Tony pat you on the head and tell you you’re a good boy today?
Another Elijah comment.
He paid me well. I am winning, too.
Please put all your stupid words in one comment instead of three.
For those curious about the core of this issue, view the video below and ponder this: “Is this really the vision you have for downtown Fullerton, 365 days per year, until 2:00 AM?”
https://youtu.be/-5b8guM5tDE
Thanks for that. I’ll put it in the post as a reminder of what happens when there’s no upholding of the law.
That video is 2 minutes long, not 365 days
Blessed be the name of Tony Bushala. May our blog never transgress him, and may his lazy ass leech off the city for many years to come
Thank you. Amen
Yes. Acknowledge your Lord and Master!
So glad we’re getting stricter noise limits. How else is Tony supposed to bully business owners he doesn’t like?
Come on City Council. Think about what really matters. Tony’s needs should always come first
No you’re not getting stricter noise limits. You’re getting stricter enforcement of the law, Roscoe Elijah.
Teacher, teacher!!! They’re exceeding the noise limits!
Officer, officer, they’re breaking the law!
I’m sorry, you’ll need to speak with Code Enforcement.
I’m sorry, that’s a matter for the police.
And there you have it.
The law: noise too loud.
You guys are so lame and bad for Fullerton
“Wahhh wahhh the music too loud. Please turn down” said the man who owns entire neighborhoods next to the the loud train tracks.
How pathetic
I know I’m in my old age and living forever isn’t an option, but you know what I was thinking is even better than living forever: screwing over every person that will live longer than me. How’s that for some charitable policies?
(This message was paid by major donor Tony Bushala, whose coattails I love to ride)
We can be sure the Kennedy Sisters will try to gin up support for an amplified musical free for all and pretend they’re for the businesses. Why because three councilmembers they hate are showing some regard for the people who live in and around DTF.
The point of this post is to point out the incompetence of city staff: the ordinance is so hard to enforce let’s just ignore it and hope the problem will just go away.
It’s not going to.
The city won’t even make a bar owner give back a public sidewalk.
True, that. They bent over backwards for Mario Marovic by letting him open up without resolving his encroachment onto OUR pop-out.
And then Zahra was seen celebrating the guy’s other place.
That’s because Ahmad Zahra has no soul. He is a political daytrader – the worst kind of charlatan.
He sold his soul a long time ago. Now he gets by hoping nobody will ask any embarrassing questions.
How much is Tony paying for his patio?
Don’t give that BS excuse that “everyone can use it”, that’s true for most of these patios
Everyone can use it.
How much is Les Amis paying for their sidewalk AND patio? No, not everyone can use ’em.
Poor, downtrodden and sudden boohoo cause celebre Les Amis uses a lot more public space for free.
Fullerton is a Dead Man’s Party.
It’s sort of like a bug stuck in tree sap.
Stupidity is all Fullerton has.