Well folks, with HB1003 we've got on good piece of legislation before the Washington State House of Representatives, but unfortunately now we got a bad one submitted to the State Senate.
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HB5089 is bad
This bill does two things.
The first one is to lower the max dba from 105 to 96.
The second is to ban anyone with land zoned as residential from riding within 600 feet of anyone else's house or livestock buildings regardless of how quiet might be.
My $.02 :p
Item 1, 105 is way too loud, but 96 is a big change since every 6 db is equal to doubling the sound sensation. Although I would like to have everyone's bikes that quiet, I don't know if I trust our State government with the task of enforcing that big of a change rationally.
Item 2, 600 feet from my neighbor's barn? This will ban almost every kid with a Z50 or PW from almost siliently putting about the back yard. What value does that have? Less kids will learn to ride and they will alway learn something else instead. Kids are that way and there are plenty of other things that they would be better off not learning to do instead of hanging out with their family and have fun in a responsible manner.
Additionally, the way this is written my kid can't ride within 600 feet of the neighbor's barn, but the neighbor can light up his quad anytime because I don't have a livestock barn within 600 feet of him.
Hmmm. . . .
This fine piece of work is currently before the Washington State Senate Water, Energy and Environment Committee.
click here:
HB5089 is bad
This bill does two things.
The first one is to lower the max dba from 105 to 96.
The second is to ban anyone with land zoned as residential from riding within 600 feet of anyone else's house or livestock buildings regardless of how quiet might be.
My $.02 :p
Item 1, 105 is way too loud, but 96 is a big change since every 6 db is equal to doubling the sound sensation. Although I would like to have everyone's bikes that quiet, I don't know if I trust our State government with the task of enforcing that big of a change rationally.
Item 2, 600 feet from my neighbor's barn? This will ban almost every kid with a Z50 or PW from almost siliently putting about the back yard. What value does that have? Less kids will learn to ride and they will alway learn something else instead. Kids are that way and there are plenty of other things that they would be better off not learning to do instead of hanging out with their family and have fun in a responsible manner.
Additionally, the way this is written my kid can't ride within 600 feet of the neighbor's barn, but the neighbor can light up his quad anytime because I don't have a livestock barn within 600 feet of him.
Hmmm. . . .
This fine piece of work is currently before the Washington State Senate Water, Energy and Environment Committee.
