Councillor questions approval process following 100 complaints about Cambridge event [Video]

More than 100 noise complaints were made about a recent late night event at Riverside Park in Cambridge, leading one councillor to question why it was approved in the first place.

Organizers of the Indian dance festival, held on Sept. 7, got approval for 5,000 people.

Some neighbours described it as very loud and disruptive.

Sharon Detzler lives five blocks away from Riverside Park and said she could heard it inside her home.

“It was loud, really loud,” she told CTV News. “Just like a rumble. It would be on and off. But it was enough to make you go: ‘Okay, that’s enough.’”

Councillor Corey Kimpson said she received over a hundred complaint emails about the event.

She said the party was approved but not through the city’s typical process, since the Cambridge noise bylaw is currently under review.

“For some reason, somebody decided that since the noise bylaw was under review that they weren’t going to bring noise …