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The colder temps worked out for me. AT&T has a research business center next to my home and when the temperature is above 45 degrees they turn on a chiller unit

The colder temps worked out for me. AT&T has a research business center next to my home and when the temperature is above 45 degrees they turn on a chiller unit to keep their servers cool. It blasts over 45 DB (I sometimes go over 50 decibels) into my house all night as long as long as the temperature is over 45 degrees. With the colder temps outside, I've been able to sleep in my room. When the warmer weather hits I'm not able to sleep in my own room at night. My entire house is filled with an extremely torturous tone that will drive you insane. ATT won't do anything about it even though licensed professionals show they are above the city code allowed noise levels at night.

theandrewbailey 6y ago
Maybe you should fight it with a lawsuit?
- ronnier 6y ago
  That's the plan. Waiting on the official report next week and will present it to the city (again). If the city continues to refuse to take action then I'll have to move forward with a lawsuit.
wahern 6y ago
Out of curiosity, did the research center exist before the home was built or vice-versa? The research center existing first doesn't normally preclude a nuisance claim. But land use legal scholars always like to point out that people tend to move to the nuisance, mostly because such residential developments tend to be cheaper. Sprawl tends to envelop industrial areas over time. I'm just curious as a point of reference. No judgment. Heck, most American cities try too hard to separate land uses, which exacerbates sprawl. Rather than pretending we can always avoid conflicting uses through geographic dispersion, we should probably put in more effort to streamlining resolution of particular cases.
- ronnier 6y ago
  It existed before I bought the house, but I bought the house during the cool weather so I had no idea this chiller would be on at night. I didn't hear the chiller when I bought the house. I heard the normal hvac units outside but you can't hear them inside. It wasn't until after I moved in and later that the chiller started firing at night while I was in my be trying to sleep.
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theandrewbailey 6y ago

Maybe you should fight it with a lawsuit?

ronnier 6y ago
That's the plan. Waiting on the official report next week and will present it to the city (again). If the city continues to refuse to take action then I'll have to move forward with a lawsuit.

wahern 6y ago

Out of curiosity, did the research center exist before the home was built or vice-versa? The research center existing first doesn't normally preclude a nuisance claim. But land use legal scholars always like to point out that people tend to move to the nuisance, mostly because such residential developments tend to be cheaper. Sprawl tends to envelop industrial areas over time. I'm just curious as a point of reference. No judgment. Heck, most American cities try too hard to separate land uses, which exacerbates sprawl. Rather than pretending we can always avoid conflicting uses through geographic dispersion, we should probably put in more effort to streamlining resolution of particular cases.

ronnier 6y ago
It existed before I bought the house, but I bought the house during the cool weather so I had no idea this chiller would be on at night. I didn't hear the chiller when I bought the house. I heard the normal hvac units outside but you can't hear them inside. It wasn't until after I moved in and later that the chiller started firing at night while I was in my be trying to sleep.

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