IF Cagayan de Oro City’s nightspots insist on playing live band music beyond 10 pm, they should at least soundproof their establishments to avoid disturbing their neighbors.
That was the sentiment raised by the 20th City Council’s peace and order committee in Friday morning’s meeting on a proposed amendment to the 1994 City Codified Ordinance 1994 specifically on the provision setting the schedule for Cagayan de Oro City’s nightspots to play live band music from midnight to 5 am. The meeting held at the City Council session hall was attended by some of the city’s nightspot managers.
The proposed amendment pushed by the Regulatory Compliance Board (RCB) resets the schedule from 10 pm to 7 am. In lobbying for the approval of the proposed amendment, Regulatory Compliance Board (RCB) team leader Antonio Resma Jr said the problem had even reached the city’s uptown area where some nightspots played loud music that reached nearby residents staying as far as two kilometers.
‘How one defines (what constitutes) music and noise (is subjective). Some are okay with it while others are tired and want to go to sleep, all they can hear is the loud base (sounds)…that’s why we were surprised about the complaints since the nightspots are (at least two kilometers away),’ Resma said. Councilor Malvern Esparcia said open-air nightspots need to renovate their premises.
‘In Davao City, the bars stopped live music at 11 pm…so if the nightspots want to operate beyond (the proposed 10 pm cutoff) they should soundproof their establishments,’ Esparcia said. Both Resma and RCB chairman Jose Edgardo Uy agreed, saying the main issue lies in their live band music that disturbed nearby residents.
‘There are those who are compliant and those who continue to violate…I think it’s time for them to organize themselves and police their ranks. To those who are compliant, take the lead in policing your ranks….It’s difficult to rely everything on the RCB, we don’t regulate (300) bars but hotels, motels, boarding houses, gambling houses,’ Uy said in Visayan.
As Councilor Jose Pepe Abbu Jr moved for the approval of the motion to include the proposed amendments, Councilor Calizo said all they ask is for nightspot owners to tone down their (live band music). We don’t have problems on them operating beyond 10 pm so long as they don’t disturb their neighbors…the loud music is the main complaint of our constituents who want to sleep early,’ Calizo said./Stephen Capillas of City Information Office
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