Montreal to change bylaw to protect venues from noise complaints

The City of Montreal is promising to quickly alteration a bylaw to protect intermezo venues and bars from noise complaints, aft a tribunal ordered a beloved euphony hallway to tube down.

In a determination released Monday, nan Court of Appeal ordered La Tulipe — a venue that opened its doors much than 100 years agone — to extremity making audible sound from its sound equipment.

After losing nan tribunal lawsuit brought by a noise-sensitive neighbour, La Tulipe announced Tuesday it would adjacent down immediately.

The news shocked Montrealers, who realized nan tribunal determination would apt lead to galore different venues crossed nan metropolis to beryllium forced to close.

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In response, Luc Rabouin, politician of nan Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, says nan metropolis will clasp an emergency convention connected Thursday to exclude euphony halls, bars and restaurants from a sound regularisation bylaw.

The spot adjacent to La Tulipe had been utilized arsenic a storage anterior to 2016, and nan metropolis concedes it mistakenly granted nan caller proprietor a licence to person nan commercialized abstraction into residences.