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RECOMMENDATION (S): The Administration recommends that the Board close the public <br />hearing and adopt an amended nose control ordinance. <br />This item does not require a recommendation from the Planning Board since it is not a zoning <br />or subdivision ordinance. <br />Clarification of the Attachments <br />The attachments include the following items: <br />1. A comparison chart of noise control ordinances from otherjurisdictions, including Orange <br />County, which is found on pages 3 through 10; <br />2. A comparison chart of the existing Orange County Noise Control Ordinance with <br />suggested and alternative revisions to the appropriate articles, which is found on pages <br />11 through 15; <br />3. A timely article entitled, "Sound Advice, which is found on pages 16 through 32;" and <br />4. The existing Orange County Noise Control Ordinance, as amended, which is found on <br />pages 33 through 37, <br />Several examples of North Carolinian noise control regulations are provided so that <br />Commissioners can gain perspective regarding how other counties, towns, and cities address <br />noise control, The Orange County chart also includes the zoning ordinance noise performance <br />standards and the Town of Chapel Hill's noise standards of different sound frequency bands. <br />"Sound Advice" is a very readable and understandable article, which was written to help make <br />noise control and the technicalities of the science of noise more knowable to the normal person. <br />Finally, the existing Orange County Ordinance, which was adopted in 1983 and amended only <br />once since then, is included. <br />