Anonymous wrote:My neighborhood, which is largely residential and generally quiet, has a small shopping center with an oversized parking lot on its edge. On the weekends, large groups of cars (maybe 60) have started to meet in this parking lot (usually empty after 8pm), rev their engines, blast music and basically hold the neighborhood hostage to noise. The shopping center owner has been notified but can't seem to do anything about it. The police are called every weekend and they eventually show up but do nothing (not even giving out citations for the noise).
I live several blocks away and I can hear the cars inside my house with the tv on. I can't imagine what it's like for the folks who live on the street near the shopping center.
If the owner and the policy won't or can't do anything, is there any other recourse?
(I'm really looking for concrete strategies, please.)
Bollards on either side of the entrances and heavy chain across is a start. Or do his homework for him and find out if he can post and enforce notices closing the lot at 8pm or whatever. If you're in a small locality, get the police on it. Even if you're not, get the police on it based on loitering ordinances or the like.