By GAGE WILSON
for Glasgow News 1
Cave City’s noise ordinance has been extended passed the previously set cutoff.
Rather than setting specific time extensions, the council members voted to amend the noise ordinance to align with the city’s entertainment district ordinance. The change allows downtown businesses to be exempt from the noise ordinance between noon and midnight.
Matt Stasel, owner of the Roxglass Bar, spoke to council members on Jan.12 about the challenges the ordinance has created for his business. “If we could even do 11 p.m. through the week and midnight on weekends,” he said, “I feel like that is pretty fair.”
Stasel said noise complaints often result in law enforcement being called, prompting patrons to leave. His bar is located within Cave City’s entertainment district.
“If they’re going to leave they’re going to go to Bowling Green,” he said. “Nobody is staying here.”
Mayor Dwayne Hatcher asked Cave City Police Officer Adam Maulden to explain what issues, if any, the department has encountered related to noise complaints.
“Sometimes it can be louder than others, that depends on the music, but it’s not excessive,” Maulden said. He noted that noise complaints are common on weekend nights, describing them as “nuisance calls” that divert officers from more serious public safety matters.
“It gives the police department a bad reputation because we’re going in there to tell them to turn the music down, when we need to be going down there only when there is an issue,” he said.
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