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But mixed zoning usually comes with rules regarding opening hours, and a requirement to respect the neighbors' sleep. If a business repeatedly breaks those rule
by periheli0n 5y ago
But mixed zoning usually comes with rules regarding opening hours, and a requirement to respect the neighbors' sleep. If a business repeatedly breaks those rules they get shut down.
That's how in works in my city. The rules might be different in different cities/countries, but at least nightly harassment shouldn't be something that one has to tolerate.
- dan-robertson 5y agoIn the U.K. there are plenty of pubs in residential areas (as there have been since long before zoning was a thing) and they may often be noisy in the evenings. Some people will buy a house/flat next to a pub and then discover they don’t really like the noise. There are rules about when businesses may open (and when they may sell alcohol) but a lot of them are historic Sunday trading laws or designed to give convenience stores an advantage over larger supermarkets. I think there are rules about where industrial buildings may be located. I think there are very few rules about where offices may be (and they can be open whenever) and there are probably some generic night noise laws, but eg the pub example above isn’t breaching them (you may see a pub with a sign outside asking people to be considerate or more rarely a pub with a sign that says something like ‘a pub has been here for X years and our neighbours should have known that it would be noisy in the evenings’)