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Amélie Waddell, a stay-at-home mom, has lived in Leslieville for two years with her family. They live on Ivy Avenue, a leafy street of neatly kept homes. But their house backs on to Wagstaff Drive.

Wagstaff is an industrial enclave, a lane of low buildings backed by railway tracks. It’s an unusual fit in the middle of an intimate community, but the businesses — among other things, a coffee roaster and a craft brewery — are the kind of amenities residents of this aging-hipster neighbourhood love.

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Many of them, including Waddell, have enjoyed a beer at Left Field Brewery, and still consider themselves big supporters of the venture.

But on Wednesday, the reporters were lining up on Wagstaff, and it wasn’t for a cold one.

Left Field Brewery set up shop here in May, and has been collecting noise complaints since, so much so that 50 neighbours signed and filed a petition to city hall.

‘Our weekends are when we spend time together as a family, but that’s when the brewery is the loudest’

On Tuesday, the local councillor, Paula Fletcher introduced a motion at city council to have the city work with the brewery and community in a bid to resolve the dispute.