The Lawrenceville City Council has changed its noise regulations ordinance. This is the first update to the current Noise Control Ordinance since approximately 2005. It will become effective December 1, 2021.
Mayor David Still says: “Uncontrolled excessive noise can negatively impact a community. We have spent considerable time and effort creating an amended ordinance supporting public health, safety, and quality of life for those who live, work, and visit the City of Lawrenceville.”
The amended ordinance measures noise on a “plainly audible standard” with day and time restrictions. The amended ordinance closely aligns with Gwinnett County’s noise ordinance and includes specifications regarding sound measurement standards, mechanical sound-making devices, human-produced sounds, commercial advertising, party noise and associated distances, days and times of day. The amended ordinance also includes specific restrictions for apartments, condominiums, townhomes and similar residential units.
The amended ordinance addresses consumer fireworks, outlining the only allowable dates and times within the City of Lawrenceville. This portion of the ordinance follows state laws currently in effect regarding fireworks.
Additional specifications for distance and time of day are included for landscape maintenance devices, engine, mufflers and/or exhaust system noises, construction noises, and commercial entities near single-family residential zoning districts.
- The full ordinance can be found here.
New I-85 interchange at Gravel Spring Road opens today
Gwinnett County will open the new Interstate 85 interchange at SR 324/Gravel Springs Road Tuesday (today), November 23, weather permitting.
The project includes four new ramps from Gravel Springs Road, with turn lanes and traffic signals, sidewalks, sound barriers and retaining walls. The project is funded by local, state and federal funds.
While the interchange will be fully functional today, additional work is required that could require temporary lane closures. Weather permitting, construction is forecast for completion in mid-2022. Construction took just over two years to reach this milestone of opening to traffic. Commissioners awarded the project to E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc. The contractor completed paving activities to tie in the on- and off-ramps last month.
City of Lawrenceville also has truck to vacuum leaves
Time GwinnettForum came out on Friday, we learned that another Gwinnett city, Lawrenceville, has this service, which it operates six months out of the year with people from its Streets and Sanitation Department. It is free to residents.
Lawrenceville vacuums up leaves on a two-week schedule, though when rain impacts the area, it sometimes is every three weeks, from November 1 to April 30. After that time, the city still collects leaves, but then they must be bagged.
GGC professor, colleague study travel disruptions
Scenario analysis of cascading delay disruptions from a simulated attack on Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Duration of the attack: 8 to 9 a.m. EST on December 1, 2019. Image provided.
By Ken Scar
NOV. 23, 2021 | As Americans prepare to come together this Thanksgiving, the threat of travel disruptions looms a little heavier than usual because of a recent spate of mass flight delays and cancellations.
JetBlue cancelled hundreds of flights in September due to unspecified issues, Spirit Airlines blamed a staff shortage for thousands of cancellations in late August, and most recently Southwest cancelled some 2,000 flights across the country because of inclement weather and staff shortages, as did American, with little explanation.
l flights can cause more than just temporary frustration. They can lead to any number of disruptions in a person’s life including financial hardships and emotional distress. Multiply that by the thousands, add the havoc mass flight delays have on critical supply chains, and the negative ripple effects of just one airport or airline being shut down for only a matter of minutes can impact the entire country.
Unfortunately, our enemies know this. The growing threat of attacks against critical infrastructure that come from inside computers as opposed to exterior forces has become a major concern for travelers, government officials, and airlines alike.
Skanda Vivek, assistant professor of physics at the School of Science and Technology at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) teamed up with Charles Harry, an associate research professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, to conduct a research study to better understand those threats in order to mitigate them.
Their findings, published in the 2021 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), shed some light on the vulnerability of U.S. airlines and airports to cyberattacks, and offers a framework for assessing these threats.
Vivek explained: “We wanted to understand which events generate the greatest concern for national operators and policymakers. To do this, we used detailed flight data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to answer the research question: ‘How do you quantify strategic effects of cyber-attacks on airports, airlines, or key vendors that disrupt portions of the passenger air network?’”
Vivek and Harry simulated scenarios wherein hackers impact flights to cause loss of air network capacity and propagating delays, specifically looking at regional versus national disruptions stemming from attack scenarios. Vivek and Harry’s research revealed the effects of attacks on three different stakeholders: airports, airlines, and third-party vendors.
Their research found that airlines have a greater capacity to cause national disruptions than airports. For instance, taking down Southwest airlines alone could generate twice the national disruption as taking out Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, the largest airport in the country.
But what really surprised them was the greatest threat did not come from attacking the computer systems of airlines or airports, but of third-party vendors.
Harry offered a sobering example of this:
AeroData, a German firm that is used by Delta, Southwest, United, American, Alaska and JetBlue to determine a plane’s weight and balance data, which is necessary for takeoff, experienced a brief software glitch in their system on April 1, 2019. That one glitch resulted in 36 percent of the entire U.S. weighted air capacity being grounded for 40 minutes.
Vivek and Harry hope that their findings will bring a better understanding to these threats, in turn enabling policy makers to take informed measures to mitigate them.
Lilburn’s Sarah Roberts wins DAR conservation award
Sarah Roberts receives the DAR Conservation Award Certificate from Kathy Lobe, past Philadelphia Winn Conservation Committee Chair.
The Philadelphia Winn Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Lawrenceville has presented the National DAR Conservation Award to Sarah Carter Roberts of Lilburn for work during her tenure at the Atlanta History Center. She is the Olga C. de Goizueta vice president of Goizueta Gardens and Living Collections. Goizueta Gardens, consisting of 33 acres, uses the landscape to tell the stories of the region’s unique horticultural and agricultural history.
Goizueta Gardens is located around Smith Farm and Swan House at the History Center. It is dedicated to Georgia’s native plants, and those that highlight ornamental plants from other regions that are characteristic of the southern landscape. Sarah was inspired by her design training in England to offer a place of beauty for quiet reflection with year-round blooms and fragrant plants.
Sarah’s interest in gardening and improving the environment began when she was a child, gardening alongside parents and grandparents. She has spent most of her life in Gwinnett County and is a graduate of Parkview High School. With a horticulture degree from Berry College, her gardening experiences prior to returning home included time at the University of Reading, UK Garden Design School, and Dorney Court Blooms of Bressingham, and five years as Curator of Herbaceous Plants and Outdoor Gardens at the New York Botanical Garden.
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