The city of Coquitlam got itself in the midst of a neighbourhood squabble because its bylaws allow it to step in if noise disturbs residents.
This noise bylaw puts the city high up in the hierarchy of nanny states when it effectively wrote a bad parenting notice to Jana D'Addabbo, telling her to control her kids because they were being noisy and riding skateboards unsafely.
Judging from the barrage of social media comments, one person's joyful screams are another person's headaches and the city ended up having to weigh in on the issue, apparently after multiple complaints from neighbours.
It would seem in this day and age people should be able to get along and sort out their own problems without getting the city involved. At one time, social ostracization was the tool, now it's social media and city bylaw officers — the latter not necessarily a good use of taxpayer's dollars but apparently a requirement.
As we live in increasingly denser quarters, it would seem that we either learn to get along or pay to have others solve our disputes.
