What the City is Doing About Noise
The City works to manage noise through land-use planning, bylaws, traffic management and policing. Here are some of the ways the City is dealing with noise:
Noise Control Bylaw
The City's Noise Bylaw regulates construction, vehicle, and household noise within Vancouver. For bylaw details visit: City of Vancouver Bylaws.
Urban Noise Task Force
Growing concerns about noise and its effects on everyday life in Vancouver led to the creation of the Urban Noise Task Force. This citizens' group, with the assistance of City staff and Councillors, made a series of recommendations to the City for improving Vancouver's "soundscape" many of which have been, or are being implemented.
Clark-Knight Corridor
The Vancouver Transportation Plan proposed that major arterial roads in the city be reviewed in terms of their transportation performance and their relationship to the neighbourhoods that they pass through. The first Whole Route Analysis, which also measured and reviewed noise sources, has been completed for the Clark-Knight Corridor, one of the city's major truck routes. From this analysis, recommendations were developed to improve livability and safety along Knight Street and Clark Drive, while recognizing its use as a major goods movement and commuter arterial.
Quiet pavement
The City is considering noise-reduction pavement on major transportation corridors, based on a review of trial sections already installed on various streets.
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