08/18/08 Residents don't want to put a stop to the construction but simply wants a compromise the would cut down on the hours of noise

Wolfgang Luthe and his wife Luise stand in their backyard. They are complaining that the noise coming from a neighboring construction project on Orchard Place is too loud.
(Helen Neafsey/ Greenwich TimeStaff photo)

HEADLINE:

As a result of Wolfgang Luthe's complaints First Selectman Peter Tesei has asked the Board of Health to review the town's noise ordinance.

QUOTES:

"We live in a high-rent neighborhood and I have to sit outside with earplugs. I might as well move to the Bronx," Wolfgang Luthe said, the clatter of jackhammers prevalent in the background. "Sometimes, you feel like a prisoner in your own home."

"There's little that I can do about it," First Selectman Peter Tesei said. "There's limitations on what you can regulate."

"It's not illegal," said Justin Shaw,, owner of JCS Capital LLC, a Greenwich-based development company. "It's loud as hell. For someone that's right there, yeah, it's going to suck."


THE STORY:

Complaints lead to noise ordinance review

Greenwich Time, CT

By Neil Vigdor
Staff Writer

Wolfgang Luthe threw his hands up in disgust one recent afternoon while sitting on the patio of his home at 95 Oneida Drive in Indian Harbor.

Just over the fence line, a symphony of jackhammers, earth-moving equipment and power tools played in steady unison.

The commotion, he said, is coming from Orchard Place, a public street that runs along the perimeter of the gated Indian Harbor neighborhood, where there have been a number of recent tear-downs of smaller homes and new construction.

The noise has been fairly constant for about five or six months, according to Luthe, 72, who said he has asked for the town's intervention but hasn't gotten very far...

...At Nos. 50 and 56 Orchard Place, the owner of the carpentry business working on a townhouse project there said his workers have limited their activities from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.

Told by the newspaper that the town's noise prohibition is in effect until 9 a.m. on Saturdays, Marcel St. Pierre of Danbury-based Marellie Carpentry said he "had no idea" about the hours allowed.

"(We) don't make a lot of noise," St. Pierre said, explaining that the only noise from the carpenters came from nail guns and electric saws.

As St. Pierre spoke Monday, an excavation machine dumped rocks into a large pile on the property. A message seeking comment was left Monday for Gorski Mason Contractor, the Stamford excavation company doing the project....

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