Blue Owl Brewing
On Noise Ordinance – Time for a Class Action?
RECEIVED Mon., June 15, 2009
Dear Editor,
Does anyone know exactly how many live music venue owners (who've been cited under the noise ordinance) it would take to meet class action status? It seems to me – what with all those conspicuously uncited Republic of Texas Biker Rally events over the weekend – that venue owners would have a pretty solid case against the city of Austin for unequal enforcement. Since the City Council's sole contribution to the idea of "live music capital of anything" appears to have been thinking up the slogan, maybe some charges of false advertising could get thrown in there as well.
How long is it to the next council election, anyway? A lot of Austinites go out to see live music, and a clever venue owner could probably whisper a few words in his customers' ears come election time on the subject of council members who want to put them out of business.
Does anyone know exactly how many live music venue owners (who've been cited under the noise ordinance) it would take to meet class action status? It seems to me – what with all those conspicuously uncited Republic of Texas Biker Rally events over the weekend – that venue owners would have a pretty solid case against the city of Austin for unequal enforcement. Since the City Council's sole contribution to the idea of "live music capital of anything" appears to have been thinking up the slogan, maybe some charges of false advertising could get thrown in there as well.
How long is it to the next council election, anyway? A lot of Austinites go out to see live music, and a clever venue owner could probably whisper a few words in his customers' ears come election time on the subject of council members who want to put them out of business.
Jason Meador
