Sound and Fury. Noise Ordinance Finally Approved. Downtown Is Dying.
Last night the Fullerton City Council, at long last, approved a noise-related addition to the Municipal Code. The vote was 3-2: Jung, Dunlap, and Valencia for, Charles and Zahra voting no.
This effort has been going on for over ten years, has been diddled with by more than ten City Councilpersons (Flory twice), and five City Managers, acting and permanent.
The ordinance is pretty tame really, with decibel levels I think are way too high, but at least gauged at the property line where the goofy and distracting issue of “ambient noise” can be better put to rest. Hours of outdoor music have been addressed with common sense and respect for neighboring inhabitants.
Fines for violators are in place, and about time, too.
It was amusing to watch Zahra and Charles pretend to be “pro-business.” We know the performance was disingenuous because of their cavalier attitude to non-bar businesses on Wilshire Avenue that suffered when that pair closed the street for their absurd “Walk on Wilshire.” They ignored the fact that downtown Fullerton runs in the red and is subsidized by the rest of us. Really their act was about voting against what they characterized as the wishes of “one businessman” regardless of the need for reform.
In what surely must be the dumbest thing said in recent years at a council meeting, Ahmad Zahra claimed as a fact that the “downtown is dying,” a really weird and irresponsible thing to utter. The Dismal Damascus Doctor offered exactly zero facts to support his stupid utterance.
Naturally, our friend sweet young Elijah Manassero popped up to inform the council that most of the bar owners were already non-compliant with the new rules. His logic led him to conclude that therefore the new regulations were ill-advised. It didn’t seem to occur to the tender sprout that the continual bar-owner abuse of existing law was precisely why the new ordinance was needed. I have no idea what they’re teaching the young folk these days, but thinking doesn’t seem to be in the bundle, although I’m sure callow Elijah has loads and loads of self esteem.
Now it will be time to see if the City Code Enforcement operation will employ the willingness and the competence to enforce the law. They have stubbornly refused to do so in the past, partly because councilmembers were running interference for the scofflaws. And part of the reason for staff’s reluctance might be because enforcement implies some sort of fault or failure, and in City Hall the decades long mess they made out of downtown Fullerton, has been characterized as a stunning and inarguable success.
Listening to Charles’s gibberish about businesses on Wilshire was sufficient to show her true disinterest for people in business. She’s never had a job apart from lecturing slack-jawed kids who must wonder if they have wandered into the wrong classroom.
The City won’t enforce this. The solution was simple: NO AMPLIFIED OUTDOOR MUSIC. Failing that, just have a single decibel level to accommodate background music for outdoor dining.
I liked the part when Jung ignored the code enforcement logs showing most downtown business levels at the proposed limit, to instead base his vote on his two trips to downtown.
Also, Tony calling in for his special treatment and getting it approved immediately was hilarious.
ALL PRAISE TONY AND MAY WE ALWAYS HAVE A COUNCIL THAT WORSHIPS HIM EVERY DAY
If most bars are at the proposed limit then nobody can complain, can they?
But that’s not what sweet young Elijah claimed. He said most are not. Are you saying he’s a liar?
And what is Tony’s “special treatment?” Explain in detail. Let’s see if you aren’t full of shit.
Bushala Wins Again!
Good comment Elijah Manassero Fuckface!
Thank you for this post Josh Ferguson. It’s a shame you are not a great listener and bumbled most of the facts in this post
If you think Josh is Mr. Peabody, you’re not paying attention.
Hallelujah’s ! ! !
Thank you.
Zahra and Charles
NEED TO GO
Thank you, Tony for all you have done and will do for Fullerton. The boohoos hate you and that is a great thing. We are known by the enemies we make.
In a year Charles and Zahra will be back doing whatever unproductive lives they live.
Oh my god, take Tony’s junk out of your mouth and breathe. Is he paying you!? You know he pays people for that…
“They recall him as the shy and quiet son of missionaries, who could sometimes grow “bratty” or excited when challenged.” Oh wait…that was the LA Times description of the Palisades Fire arsonist… Don’t anyone give Eli a match!
Same mold for sure. Elijah is another young, angry, ball of misdirected hate and chaos. You know, the type that eventually try to assassinate the target of their misdirected hostility like oh, Charlie Kirk or the POTUS.
Manassero is just another useful idiot, easy to manipulate and fill his empty mind with thoughts and words.
He has a platform.
A trained bear at a circus has a platform.
Nice picture of Doc Zahra performing his impression of the late Doc Jones. Please post those two images side by side sometime.
Your wish is my command.
This is great news for the “adults” who would go downtown to the bars and restaurants. Code Enforcement needs to start with Chacos and the others will get in line lickety-split. Once the bar owners get the picture, normal people will start to go DT without fear of getting cold-cocked or vomited on. Thank you Tony for giving the people their town back.
Cold-cocking and vomit are the best products Fullerton can offer. DTF is a dystopian cesspool because, well, Fullerton being Fullerton.
Oh my god, take Tony’s junk out of your mouth and breathe, brother.
All the bars should be hit with a special assessment to pay for the havoc and clean-up.
Demand proof of alcohol sales % vs. restaurant income.
All CUPs should be revoked for pretend restaurants. Turn the bars into the restaurants they pretend to be.
Absolutely agree.
The expense to our city far outweighs the income from alcohol sales.
Clean up the “Restaurant Overlay Area”
A disaster
Go to bed, Marlene.
Go to hell, asshole.
this will never happen. Wasting too much time on this site in Lala land. Fullertons not gonna do crap about this ordinance. Willing to bet $$$.
Wow, another huge win for Tony and the brain trust over here at FFFF. A noise ordinance! Groundbreaking stuff. Truly the kind of visionary leadership Fullerton’s been missing. I’m sure the city will be out there any day now with their decibel meters, handing out tickets left and right… just like they’ve been so on top of everything else. Give me a break.
Meanwhile, for all his bitching, Tony can’t even get the city to reclaim their own sidewalk from the big boys at Mickey’s. And Les Amis and Back Alley haven’t paid rent on their public patios in who knows how long… yet the city (and Tony) can’t even get those patios shut down. HA!
But yeah, this is the big one, guys! You’re “taking back the streets” one pointless, unenforceable ordinance at a time. Keep patting yourselves on the back, heroes — your keyboards are the only things making any real noise.
For a guy who claims to “win” all the time, he sure comes off like a drunken buffoon and a loser.
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What happens if Mickey’s gives up the sidewalk and Les Amis and Back Alley pay their bills? Will all be right with your stupid world moron? So fucking dumb.
Why such filthy language ?
Soap for your mouth
Naughty, naughty, potty mouth.
okay guy, this is clearly way over your head. You’re over here cheering on Tony like he’s saving the city, meanwhile he can’t get a single real thing done. The clowns running this site have been crying about the same crap for decades and still haven’t moved the needle. nothing but a bunch of losers smelling each others farts.
Keep it coming. LOVE Friends for fullertons farts.
2024-2025
Cannabis Kitty? Gone.
WoW? Gone.
Observer in City Hall? Gone.
Wild West Noise? Soon to be gone.
Florentine/ Marovic bump out? Soon to be gone.
Lease at Depot? Extended.
But you go ahead and cheer on the liars and the thieves. Your moral compass is broken.
Sounds good to me
What is The Depot ?
Bushala’s got their lease extended and modified to include all of the loading dock. A win-win, except that Zahra and Charles and their uninformed minions tried to make it out into a scandal.
Cannabis Kitty – never was and still lost by only a handful of votes. Laughable considering the money you wasted.
WoW? A 100 foot road closure that one restaurant was using as a patio. No one actually cared. Weak.
Observer in City Hall? A newspaper (is it even?) – hahahaha. Pathetic.
Wild West Noise? Will never be enforced.
Florentine/ Marovic bump out? Beat this drum for another 20 years while nothing happens. Loser.
Lease at Depot? Don’t know anything about this. I imagine you got some kind of lease extended that you will do absolutely nothing with because you are an alcoholic and have no vision. “Big developer”. Hahahah.
These things sure seemed uber important to Bushala’s enemies.
Hahaha! Busted.
Fragile Elijah is on the verge of exploding very soon. His rants are growing angrier and desperate, as is his unhealthy fixation on Tony Bushala. Tony needs to get security because Elijah is a nano-aggression away from going Charlie Kirk on Tony. Prove me wrong.
This ordinance is insanity. A car driving by is 80db next to the car. Do we ban cars next?
Maybe. For a second if you’re standing right next to it.
We don’t ban cars. We don’t even ban dumbass commenters like you.