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    <author><![CDATA[Here for the music]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[THEY ARE DOWNTOWN SHUTTING THEM DOWN RIGHT  NOW AND IT IS BEFORE 8PM ! THEY ARE NOT LETTING PERFORMERS WORK AT ALL ON BOURBON THIS WEEKEND !
        
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      <![CDATA[8 pm seems early to stop the street music; why not 10 or 11? And seriously, the Bourbon St. bars that blast recorded music are the real source of noise pollution.
        
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      <![CDATA[If he would also enforce the decibel levels at the loud, canned-music clubs and have them CLOSE their doors, as used to be required, I could go along with the 8 PM enforcement. But what's legal for the street musician should also be required from the loud club noise offenders, both live and canned.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Micah Dardar]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[We will never be free until the government cannot afford to violate our rights. That's why I'm Libertarian.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think the street music adds to
    the character and charm of the Quarter
    as a local neighborhood and National
    Historic District..............
        
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      <![CDATA[I think the street music adds to the ambiance and charm of the French
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Olivia Greene]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think it would be more appropriate to enforce the noise ordinance on clubs, especially those that blare high decibel RECORDED music into the streets. The street musicians are not or just minimally amplified (a vocal mike, for instance).
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Julez]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think it's a slippery slope from trying to outlaw mule carts, storytellers (which is what the nighttime tour guides are) and buskers to calling the cops on the "loud, disruptive" second lines in other neighborhoods... and it's part of the same mentality
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Julia]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The Quarter was a neighborhood long before it was a tourist destination. I had a friend who lived on Barracks, rather quiet for the quarter, and I was shocked how loud it was inside her house.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Brian]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I don't care one way or another about walking tours, but ... ahem ... I'm quite sure that "the magic and privilege of living in such a wonderful neighborhood" existed before tour guides appeared.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Alva]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I don't understand either. Why live in the quarter if you don't want to deal with tourists, tours, musicians, mule carts.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Phil]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[It is so easy for us to forget that the French Quarter is a residential neighborhood. The ordinances are to benefit the residents and merchants.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Mr. Quarterite]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[So has there been any action on clubs like BBC and Fat Catz? Not only do clubs like that blast music out their doors as early as 4 p.m. most days, they turn the volume UP about 2 or 3 a.m.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Le Bloc]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What do you have against the tours? Serious question, not a rhetorical one.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[jeffrey]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[A lot of this makes sense to me.  I would personally prefer if they had begun this campaign by shutting down the stupid Haunted History/Vampire bullcrap tours instead of musicians playing in non-residential areas.
        
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