BRACEBRIDGE – The Town of Bracebridge is opening up the noise bylaw to include hooting and hollering.

During the March 15 general committee meeting, council approved revisions to a draft noise bylaw that will now allow “yelling, shouting, hooting or similar noises made by a human.”

The bylaw currently prohibits these human noises at all times and a report by chief by-law enforcement officer Scott Stakiw states that “when reviewing a number of comparator bylaws, it was confirmed that many of the other noise control bylaws either permitted this type of noise during daytime hours or did not prohibit the noise at all within the bylaw. Therefore, the draft bylaw would prohibit this type of noise only between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. this would enable incidental noise typically associated with sporting and recreational activities to take place during daytime hours.”

This timing has been amended in a resolution by council to allow the human noise until 11 p.m. The decision is expected to be ratified by council at the next council meeting on March 23.