Staff Report on Noise Ordinance Exemption Is Baffling
Our initial report on Saturday did not have access to the staff report because the city’s computer system was down at the time it was written. The staff report is now available and raises far more questions than answers primarily because it gives no rationale for the exemption other than the fact that the Council voted to direct staff to examine the noise ordinance and suggest approaches to dealing with child care centers and schools.
The issue of the time limitations for the noise ordinance exemption are interesting:
In light of four high profile shootings in a two month period there were concerns growing in the community that these shootings were a reflection of a rise in crime that threatened the city of Davis. Accordingly, the Vanguard acquired the last two years of uniform crime statistics, the same statistics that the city sends on a monthly basis to the Justice Department.
Today has been one of those days where I have several good ideas for a column, but no great ideas for a column. For example we have now had two horrific killings of police officers one of course down the road in Oakland and the other in Pittsburgh. There is not a great local angle on that fortunately, but it is pretty tragic, especially I guess some of the political biproduct that has crept into the latter incident.
