The company did not respond to a request for comment from Journal-News.
The sounds reaching Jordan’s property from three Wise & Trust trailers on Thursday were not significant.
“It’s not bad right now, really not,” Jordan said in an interview. “Because these fans don’t work. They run, but they barely move – just enough to move the air to cool them. That’s it.”
But when it’s hot, “I couldn’t sit on my back deck and have a conversation with someone,” he said. “He was roaring so loud you just couldn’t really have a good conversation. It was always, ‘What did you say? What did you say?'”
“It’s a sound that never stops. It’s 24/7, ”he said.
After hearing Jordan’s complaint on Wednesday, city council asked city administrators for a report by December 15 on why Jordan was not notified before the city signed a new lease on September 29 and that the business has come back.
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Candy Marcum of Hyde Park Drive, Jordan’s sister, at the July meeting agreed with her description of the noise levels. She told the town planning committee that she was planning a birthday party for an 82-year-old, “and I had to cancel the party last summer because we couldn’t have the party there. rear of his property. And I just want you to know that.
The case was before the planning committee because after Hamilton annexed the property from Hanover Township over ten years ago, the city never zoned the land.
This year, planners recommended that the land be zoned “community business”, but after hearing about the noise, the town planning commission decided to zon it as commercial development, to give Jordan and other neighbors have more confidence in what could happen there.
Better protection and silence promised
Executive director of infrastructure Edwin Porter said he was not the best person to explain why Jordan had not been notified because residents had been promised.
Although Wise & Trust’s operations in the city ceased for some time, Porter said she was granted a new lease and was allowed to return because the company “approached the city with a request to resume operations on the site “.
“Wise and Trust is a major commercial user of energy, which helps stabilize electricity rates for all customers of the City of Hamilton’s electricity system,” he added.
Porter told Journal-News on Friday that Wise & Trust “has taken proactive measures to reduce the level of noise generated by their operations. These measures include different and quieter equipment, the addition of sound barriers surrounding the chain container. after installation and commissioning of the container.
At the July meeting, town planner Ed Wilson told the planning committee that with the new zoning there should be an amended development plan and a notice would be sent to property owners unless 500 feet from the property, and that it should go through a city interdepartmental review before approval.
“No, they can’t come back,” city planning director Liz Hayden told the committee about the cryptocurrency company. “If you put a zoning on it, they should follow the zoning. “
As for noise, “they’re protected, because of the way our noise ordinance is worded – and I hate to say protected, because they obviously weren’t,” said Hayden. “If you live in a residential area, noise cannot enter your neighborhood at a certain decibel level.”
“The planning department was only aware of them before they closed,” Hayden said in July.
Jordan said he hopes the company’s new equipment will be quieter. On the flip side, the barriers surrounding the company’s three trailers are pretty ugly, he said.
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Jordan said Porter called him on Friday to tell him the town’s attorney was preparing a report on the situation.
“I said, ‘Again, I don’t care what anyone has to say. All I want to know is if it’s legal or illegal? ‘ “That was my question, and that’s how I expect it to be answered,” Jordan said. “But I don’t think they’re going to respond that way.”
Photojournalist Nick Graham contributed to this reporting.