Cleveland

Cleveland's Noise Ordinance 605.10 prohibits unreasonably loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise that is detrimental to health or disturbs the quiet and repose of neighboring inhabitants. Prohibited activities include sounding vehicle horns except as warning signals, keeping animals or birds that cause frequent or prolonged noise audible outside property lines, operating defective or improperly loaded vehicles, blowing steam whistles except to signal work start/stop or warn of danger, and discharging engine exhaust into open air. Construction, demolition, and mechanical equipment operation are prohibited between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 500 feet of residences and 150 feet of hospitals, schools, courthouses, and churches during their operating or service hours; these areas are designated as "zones of quiet." Compressed air devices are exempted from muffling requirements only when operated as jackhammers on weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

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The City of Cleveland adopted a collection of ordinances to enable and facilitate urban agriculture in support of community health, sustainability, and local economies. The Urban Garden District was established as part of the zoning code (Ord. No. 208-07, passed 3-5-07) to protect areas designated for local food production, community education, garden-related job training, and environmental enhancement. Additional measures include a zoning update permitting the keeping of chickens, bees, and other livestock in all zoning districts; a licensing policy administered through the Cleveland Department of Public Health; amendments allowing farm stands and agriculture as a principal use on vacant lots in residential districts; and a clarification of the permitting process for high tunnels and hoop houses issued by the Department of Building and Housing in December 2012. An Urban Agriculture Overlay District (draft) was introduced to Cleveland City Council to allow more intensive urban agriculture uses in designated areas and remains pending.

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