How to kill a music scene

This article talks about why live music venues are to be found outside Naples, Florida rather than within the city limits.

What it really addresses is the challenge of a mixed use neighborhood (the new trend in urban design) where people live among the businesses. So they don't want loud music after they have gone to bed.

A dance studio in Boulder ran into the same problem recently because it located in a new development where there are apartments above the studio and the residents complained about the noise.

Along somewhat similar lines, the neighborhood right next to the University of Colorado, the Hill, has been having trouble getting any new music venues because local residents (the ones who own the expensive houses in the neighborhood -- not the students who also live in the neighborhood, but in rentals) don't like the noise and the drunken students that such places attract.

naplesnews.com, 1/28/07 - Fight for your right: "But there’s something conspicuously lacking in what Neapolitans have labeled the nightlife hot spot: good live music.

“There’s nowhere to go to see something new and original and live,” said 26-year-old music promoter and bartender Adam D’Zurilla. “As far as music at bars goes there’s nothing but DJs and Jimmy Buffett and Jack Johnson covers.”

If the city of Naples’ elected officials have anything to say about it, things will stay this way. Though not explicitly stated, the general rule of live entertainment in the City of Naples is fairly clear: only solo musicians, and only before 11:30 p.m. If you want to hear a band or DJ play past midnight, you’ll just have to go somewhere else. You’ll have to go north or east."

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