CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Residents of Charlotte have been complaining for months about noise in the Queen City.
"Currently 6:37 a.m. and just woke up to the dump truck," one woman said in a video.
Early in the morning and in the middle of the night people are losing sleep, literally.
According to the current city-wide noise ordinance, loud noises from trash collection, construction or even a lawn mower within 300 feet of a home between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. is prohibited.
Many residents in Dilworth, South End, and uptown say that ordinance is routinely violated.
"There's a consensus in the community that enforcement is either inconsistent or just non-existent," the noise ordinance committee said at the city council meeting Monday.
Some changes would include an increase of fines and a limit on amplified noise within 200 feet of schools, churches and medical facilities during their hours of operation.
But while some are happy with this proposal, there are groups against parts of the new proposed plan.
Part of the plan could keep protesters 200 feet from schools, churches, and medical facilities. The anti-abortion group "We Love Life" attended the meeting Monday and was against that part of the rule.
They say it limits their free speech.
The expectation is that the city council will vote on the committee's proposed plan at the June 24th meeting.