Malibu Municipal Code § 6.4 Goals, Objectives

6.4.1. N GOAL 1. Acceptable Noise Levels.¶

N OBJECTIVE 1.1: A COMPREHENSIVE NOISE CONTROL PROGRAM.

N Policy 1.1.1:	The City shall protect residences, parks and recreational areas from excessive noise to permit the enjoyment of activities.
N Policy 1.1.2:	The City shall protect noise sensitive land uses from negative impacts of proximity to noise generating uses.
N Policy 1.1.3:	The City shall reduce noise along PCH.
N Policy 1.1.4:	The City shall work with businesses and residents in a joint effort to plan, control, and attain an acceptable noise environment.
N Policy 1.1.5:	The City shall encourage new construction and remodels which utilize designs and materials that reduce exposure to noise sources.
N Policy 1.1.6:	The City shall review proposed development to ensure the average ambient noise is as low as feasible to maintain the rural atmosphere.

To implement these policies the City shall:

N Implementation Measure 1: Adopt a noise control ordinance to minimize or eliminate unacceptable noise levels.

N Implementation Measure 2: Limit maximum permissible noise levels from all sources, including but not limited to filming, motorized vehicles, construction, leaf blowers and other landscaping equipment.

N Implementation Measure 3: Maintain the Building Code Sound Transmission Control Standards of the State Building Code, Title 24, Part 2, Appendix 35 within the City's adopted Building Code.

N Implementation Measure 4: Require acoustical studies for major commercial development projects, and impose noise mitigation measures accordingly.

N Implementation Measure 5: Restrict the hours and days of construction, grading, and filming to reduce noise from this source.

N Implementation Measure 6: Require an acoustical analysis as part of proposed development to ensure that noise mitigation is included in the project where activities associated with proposed uses are likely to produce noise levels exceeding the adopted City noise level standards, at existing or planned noise-sensitive uses, including but not limited to, residences, schools, hospitals, long term in-patient medical treatment and care facilities, churches and libraries,

N Implementation Measure 7: Use site planning and project design as noise mitigations to achieve the specified standards for transportation or non-transportation sources.

N Implementation Measure 8: Use open space, wherever practical, to provide an adequate spatial separator between noise sources and sensitive land uses. Use noise barriers as a supplemental means of achieving the noise standards after all feasible design related noise mitigation measures have been integrated into the project.

N Implementation Measure 9: Encourage Caltrans to fund only those re-pavement projects that utilize lownoise paving materials to minimize traffic noise.

N Implementation Measure 10: Incorporate the consideration of noise impacts on significant wildlife habitats into the development review process.

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