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Leadville decides against a new noise ordinance

Brief by Allen Best

Mountain Life – November 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine

With 14,000-foot peaks fore and aft, not to mention a climate that offers snow in at least nine months of the year, you probably wouldn’t think of Leadville as a candidate for noise complaints.

For one thing, people don’t keep their windows open that often.

But the Leadville Chronicle reports that the sound of car stereos is invading homes in the Cloud City to the extent that some people want a law passed. City council members decided that no new law is needed, only enforcement of the existing law in two-mile-high Leadville.