Perhaps the video wasn’t capturing the sound very well, but I didn’t really hear the concert when you were inside.  I did hear it when you went through the sliding door, though.
Also, isn’t saying that the concert annoys the entire town a bit hyperbolic? 

Out of curiosity, how late did the concert go? I wasn’t in town.

Until 9:45 on a Thursday? Point it at my house next year, I couldn’t care less.
I hope they made money for a good cause.

I’m pretty sure some people do use power tools at 7 am in my neighborhood.  I’m not accepting intentional annoyance.  If there’s a purpose other than pissing me off then reasonable people can behave reasonably.  If you need to build your deck at 7am then I’ll get some earplugs.  If you want to do a Victoria’s Secret party that ends at 10pm then I hope you have fun.
 

The density of some people here is amazing. Are some of you seriously blowing this off and trying to compare it to an indoor concert?
 
Let’s go very slowly for the dense. An indoor concert (pause) blocks out the noise. Funny how that works.

And because of people like you, we need to have a code, ordinance, or law for everything possible.
Seems to me having a speaker system facing toward a populated area is stupid just on the face of it. Leave it to people like you to dismiss that.

As one of the parents who couldn’t get her kid down due to the noise when he had school the next day it pissed me off but I figured its technically legal by the noise ordinance so what are you gonna do? Was it bad bad planning on someone’s part? Yes. And I hope it doesn’t happen again. I’m all for people enjoying live music for a good cause, but it can be done without rattling all but the closest neighbor’s windows. I’m betting someone just didn’t think this one through and is not going to make the mistake again.

@Rob:  Thanks for the snarky response.  My point was only that you probably don’t speak for everybody in town.   There are people who didn’t mind the sound and there are those in town who actually attended the show.  Those people aren’t going to call up the police and tell them they’re fine with the noise (hopefully). 
As you have pointed out, the noise was disruptive for some.  If the permit only allowed them to go until 9PM, can they be fined for going until 9:45?  It’s not like the 9PM limit wasn’t there for a reason; if they ignored it, something should be done so that it doesn’t happen again. 
 
 
 

Dave, thanks for pointing out the show attendees wouldn’t have called the cops because of the noise. We truly need people like you to advance the dialogue.

@Q-Tips:  While the fact that people who aren’t upset don’t call the cops is obvious (I meant it as a joke, lighten up), it is also a valid criticism of using complaints as a metric for measuring community dissatisfaction.  That’s not to say there isn’t a correlation, of course. It’s just that when dissenting views choose not to make their voices heard, you get a skewed result in favour of the opinion expressed by the loudest group.
Sorry, that was an awkward explanation.
 

@Q-Tips:  Also, I believe I made a valid point then inquired about repercussions of going past the 9PM limit.  How is that not advancing the dialogue?
 

“There are people who didn’t mind the sound and there are those in town who actually attended the show.” That was a joke? You should warn us next time. It looks just like an ignorant counter"attack” to me.

@Q-Tips:  I don’t see how that is an “attack” of any sort.  It is a statement of fact.  I was simply pointing out that there are other opinions regarding the noise.  Nothing more.     

i thoguth it was a great concert! it bennefitted a good cause so worth the noise.
here’s another video i found of the same festival on DJ Irie’s youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZQK-2irbY
 

@Rob:  What constitutes a threat to public health, safety or welfare? Are we talking about threat to hearing or just really loud (an arbitrary metric)?  I guess I’m asking if Champaign or Urbana have specific guidelines regarding decibel levels.
You seemed to have followed up a lot. Do you know if the police took any measurements?

Dave, saying people attended the show is not an opinion. It is a fact, and a meaningless one to the discussion.

It’s interesting that most nuissance complaints over loud music are not initiated by complaining neighbors. The police issue city tickets based on the police officer’s perception.

@Local Yocal:  I’m confused, doesn’t the process of a noise complaint get started by the neighbors calling the police?  Or do you mean the severity of the police officer’s response (warning versus ticket) is based on the officer’s judgement?
 
@Rob:  Thanks.   What are the chances that any changes get made in how the police handle this sort of thing or how outdoor events like this arranged?  I’ve never tried to get anything done in local government, myself.
 
@Q-Tips:  You’re right, it is a fact. I never said it was anything else.  Is it a fact relevant to the current discussion? Nope, we’ve moved on; however, you’re still complaining about a comment I made in my very first post, at which point it was relevant.  I was commenting that I thought Rob was being a  bit hyperbolic saying it was annoying the entire town.  Since a few thousand members of the community were actually at the show enjoying it,  Regardless, the conversation has moved on.     

There is a reason why Urbana is the butt of every joke in Champaign.

Observations in City Court are that its the police who are initiating most noise violations. Rather than responding to a complaint from a citizen, police are simply “catching” people with loud radios, usually from their car. It’s unclear how fining people for loud radios is serving the public and improving police/community relations.

@Local Yocal:  Really? That’s really unfortunate.   Are they likely to start out with a warning when they find them or just immediately go to a fine?  
 
Thanks for the explanation, BTW.

Sounds like much ado about nothing. I live in Champaign, a little over a mile from both Memorial Stadium and downtown Champaign. I hear music and other noise from events very frequently, up to and past 10pm. (Heck, you should have heard what the Monday Night Football game a few years back sounded like at my place!) It generally doesn’t bother me; I figure it’s part of the joy of living in a vibrant community. Marching band practice, street festivals, football games, etc., are all part of living in an active city.
For the record, I heard nothing the night of this event. (And yes, I realize speakers were pointed away from my house.)

It’s not ado about nothing.  I’ve also heard football game noise on Friday nights, or music from campus, and even remember hearing the sprint cars race at the fairgrounds,or Illioski among other minor but acceptable annoyances. This was a whole ‘nother  window rattling level of magnitude worse. 

@Rob:  I was listening to it on my laptop speakers, which, quite honestly, are crap.  It wouldn’t surprise me if I lost a lot of the bass. 
Regarding the noise violations, I don’t have a problem with people being cited.  What I thought was unfortunate was that it was the police making the judgement supposedly without a complaint from any neighbors.   I’m at the age where I’m not very loud myself, but I’m fine with my neighbors having the occasional after party.  I don’t think a police officer driving through the neighborhood should necessarily be the ones making the judgement call.  
I believe you might have misread what local yocal wrote because you responded:
” If it’s true that police are citing offenders for vehicular noise violations, I say  ... HOORAY!”
when local yocal wrote:
“Rather than responding to a complaint from a citizen, police are simply “catching” people with loud radios, usually from their car.”
I interpreted this to mean that the police were in their cars (thus my above comment and explanation in this reply).  I could have misinterpreted it myself, of course.
“Or maybe you have hearing loss, and that’s the reason for your general incredulity re: this issue.” 
Seriously, Rob?   
What have I asked?
“If the permit only allowed them to go until 9PM, can they be fined for going until 9:45?  It’s not like the 9PM limit wasn’t there for a reason; if they ignored it, something should be done so that it doesn’t happen again. “
I asked if fines could be handed out.  Which side of the issue does this put me on?
“What constitutes a threat to public health, safety or welfare? Are we talking about threat to hearing or just really loud (an arbitrary metric)?  I guess I’m asking if Champaign or Urbana have specific guidelines regarding decibel levels.
You seemed to have followed up a lot. Do you know if the police took any measurements?”
I asked (admittedly in an awkward fashion) what the guidelines were regarding sound violations and whether measurements were taken.
Then, of course, there is my first and second posts.  In my first I just said I couldn’t hear the sound in the video when the camera was inside.  Another poster seconded this sentiment.  I also said I thought you were being a bit hyperbolic in the “annoys the whole town” title.  I’ll readily admit that that was an unnessissary (I have a strong distaste for hyperbole in rhetoric, I’m sorry). You responded:
“And yes, the title should be PINK concerts yields hundreds of complaints, mostly in Southeast Urbana, and as far as Myra Ridge, Stone Creek and the Brookens Administrative Center. “
which I took to be snarky (mostly because I doubt you would have actually given an article a title that would take up multiple lines). 
Now, with the exception of the “debate” ( :-) ) about the hyperbole (and the back and forth with Q-Tips), I think all I’ve done is asked a bunch of questions and haven’t really given much of my opinion. I apologize if my barrage of questions was misinterpreted as disagreeing with you. 
Regarding web pages you liked to, I did read them and I also read some of the primary sources.  While I agree that noise pollution is a problem, the studies seemed to focus on the effects of chronic noise pollution (if there are studies related to short term exposure, please link to them and I will definitely read them. I can’t say I read every single word).  While I agree that an outdoor concert near town does contribute to noise pollution, it is an infrequent occurance and complaints about noise pollution might be better focused on things that happen more regularly.
Dave
P.S. I really hate the Harleys that drive by Kopi in the summer. So loud.
 
 
 

Wow. I just saw how long that was.  Apologies to anybody who actually read it. :-)
 

“While I agree that an outdoor concert near town does contribute to noise pollution, it is an infrequent occurance and complaints about noise pollution might be better focused on things that happen more regularly.”
What? That makes no sense. So, because it doesn’t happen very often, people should just ignore it and focus on other things, as if registering the noise complaint somehow tires them out for anything else. Is that what you are saying?

@Q-Tips:  You need to look at more than one sentence.  The discussion was about health problems associated with noise.  I had pointed out that the in the articles linked, most of the studies cited were about the effects of chronic noise.  I was saying that if you’re going to be worried about health effects perhaps the focus should be  on persistent sources of noise. That’s all.  
@Rob:  The difference between the situations you point out and the noise pollution situation is that noise is a continuous scale and you have to introduce a threshold  which determines when a noise  becomes illegal.   At what point does a noise become “unwanted”?
I concede you’re probably right about the complaints issue; however, I would still like to see a better solution than what we have now.
 

Dave, the point remains that you imply that somehow complaining about this source of noise draws attention away from other noise issues. That still makes no sense.

As this is about the third take of your “I said this, but I meant THIS” performance, I’ll stick with my original conclusion.