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Long Beach Eyes Crackdown On Ice Cream Truck ‘Nuisance’
CBSLA.com ^ | July 4, 2013 8:58 AM

Posted on 07/04/2013 2:40:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — The ice cream man could be silenced once the fireworks are over this Fourth of July if one Long Beach city official has his way.

Councilman Dee Andrews is expected to introduce a plan at next week’s Long Beach City Council meeting to regulate the noise of local ice cream trucks.

Andrews will request that the City Attorney amend the municipal code to specially address what he described as “the nuisance that Ice Cream Trucks create.” The proposal also would prohibit ice cream trucks from broadcasting any amplified music while parked and dispensing ice cream.

The motion comes after Andrews received complaints from residents throughout the years about the noise level created by idle ice cream trucks, especially in the mid-city areas.

According to Andrews, “residents’ peace and quiet is disrupted by a constant procession of trucks playing various songs at high volume levels” and “can be heard throughout the day and into the evening hours for several blocks.”

In several cases, an additional ice cream truck will follow the first one and the cycle repeats all through the day, he added.

“Currently, there are no laws on the books regulating the trucks from playing music while they are parked. To keep trucks in compliance within the noise regulations, one of the enforcement mechanism for the strengthening of the noise ordinance with be administered through the Business License Department”, said Councilman Andrews.

At least one resident was in favor of the proposal.

“I have been living in the Wrigley Neighborhood for 7 years. Each year, the Ice Cream Truck noise gets louder and the trucks increase in numbers,” said district resident Sam Portillo. “It has definitely affected my quality of life for years and I am thankful that something is being proposed to address the problem.”

Andrews was expected to introduce the agenda item at the City Council meeting on July 9.


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1 posted on 07/04/2013 2:40:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Just another piece of bothersome Americana.


2 posted on 07/04/2013 2:41:24 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: BenLurkin
Currently, there are no laws on the books regulating the trucks from playing music while they are parked.

Well then by God create one! Because we all know that is a prioirity we haven't even begun to think about.

Those awful ice cream trucks. Next thing you know they will try to ban Kool Aid stands. Oh wait...

3 posted on 07/04/2013 2:43:31 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: BenLurkin
Out of control public servants again. We're looking more and more like Nazi Germany with each passing day.

"New laws are always a 'good idea' until the first time you have to enforce them." - Unknown

4 posted on 07/04/2013 2:47:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Former member of the GOP useful idiot voter base.)
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To: BenLurkin

5 posted on 07/04/2013 2:48:28 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: BenLurkin

I swear some people just don’t have enough to complain about. Maybe they ought to move to Detroit and complain about the rundown state of the city.


6 posted on 07/04/2013 2:48:31 PM PDT by The Working Man
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To: unixfox

I am not sure why the already on the books noise level ordinances and nuisance ordinances cannot deal with this anyway. Probably really don’t need more, just enforce what’s already there. As noise ordinances generally only come into play during a period of the night time, they could probably use the current nuisance ordinance to deal with it without creating another one.

And I am for nuisance ordinances and noise level ordinances. My rights end where they infringe on someone else’s and vice versa. If we’re all in a fixed confined neighborhood space I don’t have a right to drive them nuts with noise and neither do they. I don’t have a right to drive them out of the neighborhood with deliberate or not noise and neither do they.


7 posted on 07/04/2013 2:48:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

I just pray that my dogs never figure out that there’s ice cream in those trucks.


8 posted on 07/04/2013 2:48:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: unixfox

I personally don’t like ice cream trucks and their nnoise pollution.


9 posted on 07/04/2013 2:55:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Andrews is obviously not the local Good Humor guy.


10 posted on 07/04/2013 3:01:27 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: BenLurkin

You can have my ice cream pop when you pry it from my live cold hands


11 posted on 07/04/2013 3:02:38 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: cripplecreek

Our trucks have ‘frosty paws’ on board for the dogs too...LOL...

I don’t see a problem with the trucks...even hearing one makes me smile.


12 posted on 07/04/2013 3:06:50 PM PDT by EBH (Democracy is the language of dictators.)
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To: BenLurkin

Every type of food maker should be able to run his own vending business out of a vehicle, stationary or not, just not one that comes through 6 or 7 times a day blaring tinkly Christmas tunes in July. Another reason to hate summer. :) The cool weather this year in Indiana has at least slowed them down here quite a bit.


13 posted on 07/04/2013 3:15:42 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: BenLurkin
Problemo no mas

Pimp my Paletas cart.

14 posted on 07/04/2013 3:15:46 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: BenLurkin

There is one truck that come though the neighbor that has a really annoying song playing. The song stops and “hello” in a even more annoying voice. Some trucks will turn off the music when they stop. One day while think about how annoying their tape was moved with compassion for the driver. He comes by and is gone in about 30 sec. The driver has to listen to that all day long.


15 posted on 07/04/2013 3:16:38 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.")
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To: BenLurkin

Just what California needs, more job-killing regulations.


16 posted on 07/04/2013 3:16:57 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: ThomasThomas
The driver has to listen to that all day long

I honestly couldn't imagine having to listen to "Turkey in the Straw" all day long, every single day. Never really thought about this.

Though I suspect the ice cream trucks in Long Beach are probably blaring something different.

17 posted on 07/04/2013 3:22:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68; MinuteGal

When the ice cream truck came through our quiet suburban neighborhood, playing its song (which was more like a circus song back then), all of the neighborhood kids, including myself, first ran into our house to get a few coins for an ice cream bar or cone, and then ran out of the house as fast as we could to get to the ice cream truck before it drove on. I don’t understand why anyone would get so bent out of shape. The trucks didn’t stay that long in a neighborhood, and then they were gone for the day. Maybe it’s different now.


18 posted on 07/04/2013 3:30:00 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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Now, it’s no coinage to buy them. Ran across an ice cream in a neighboring town (they are banned in my city) and decided to get myself and my kids an ice cream. For me and four kids it was just over $20. Some even take visa/mastercard!


19 posted on 07/04/2013 3:37:15 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: ThomasThomas

They must hear it in their dreams.


20 posted on 07/04/2013 3:37:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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