16 Sep
2025
16 Sep
'25
11:41 p.m.
I am sorry you are experiencing noise issues with BowString. We are revising the noise
ordinance and should have a location-specific, decibel-based system based off of Austin,
TX model to vote on in October. Janet
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Subject: Re: [Belvidere-Woodcrest]Re: Please Help Our Raleigh Neighborhood
City Council Members, Please know that Susan Evans who started this email thread is far
from alone in her asking for your help. There have been 63 noise complaints about
Bowstring between October of last year and the beginning of August and
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City Council Members,
Please know that Susan Evans who started this email thread is far from alone in her asking
for your help. There have been 63 noise complaints about Bowstring between October of last
year and the beginning of August and it seems that RPD in general is not understanding the
issue we are raising (though a few officers like Lt. Borneo, copied, have really worked
hard to understand what the problem is). Thus we are asking for your help!
In short, we should absolutely not be hearing music at 4,488 feet from Bowstring's
location when the City's ordinance allows for 300 feet. We created this map
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based on feedback from our neighbors and presented it to Councilman Branch. You can see
that homes in our neighborhood are regularly hearing music from Bowstring at up to 15
times the allowable distance. We seem to be in the path of sound from Bowstring that will
likely not be solved by moving to a decibel-based ordinance as the Mayor indicates a
desire to do.
A sufficiently sized sound barrier is needed and the "volunteer compliance"
approach is not working -- some of our neighbors are hearing it inside our homes up to 5
nights a week. On the worst nights I can hear the singer take a breath. This is maddening,
especially when we've been told by RPD to just keep calling it in. No one wants to
have to complain that much. We want to be able to have live music AND quiet neighborhoods
which the City's ordinance of 300 feet should make possible when venues manage volume
and sound barriers well (or are required to when they don't do so voluntarily).
When we call the police, which they have consistently encouraged us to do, we have
repeatedly gotten reports back from officers who go to Bowstring saying that "nothing
nefarious is going on there" or that "without a decibel meter, there is nothing
we can do". Neither of these responses get to the issue about the distance at which
we are able to hear the music on a regular basis.
None of us wants RPD officers to have to come to our homes so we can prove to them the
level of noise we are tolerating. So when we're asked, "don't you want
officers to be able to focus on other things", the answer is ABSOLUTELY but thus far
the only solution we've been given is to just keep complaining which is not good for
us, the business or the officers caught in the middle.
Krista Padgett
Belvidere Park & Woodcrest Neighborhoods
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM Lauren Markley via BPW
<bpw@eastraleigh.org<mailto:bpw@eastraleigh.org>> wrote:
I get that it is not a big deal for some people, but we have a real problem at our house.
The sound is simply inescapable. We?ve been in our house for a decade or so and used to
regularly spend evenings out on the deck enjoying the natural sounds of birds and insects
as well as the very minimal human-made noise.
Bowstring?s noise is now a constant presence. We hear EVERY NOTE of every concert (even
Tuesdays now) and now we hear the MC from the Wednesday night trivia. We get roughly one
night a week without hearing them. My outdoor space is just as important as my indoor
space, and I should be able to enjoy it without this intrusion almost every evening for
hours on end.
Lauren
Dennis Ave.
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On Sep 10, 2025, at 5:39?AM, Sarah England May via BPW
<bpw@eastraleigh.org<mailto:bpw@eastraleigh.org>> wrote:
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?Hey Jenn,
I hear that you don?t mind it. I like energy in the neighborhood too. One of the weird
things about it is that the sound is way louder in some places than others. In my house
it?s so loud sometimes that my children can?t fall asleep. It?s been so loud that I can?t
fall asleep before in early morning ER shift. My husband has been unable to work at times.
I am guessing it?s not that loud at your house? But it really is a problem at ours. I
don?t love hearing it outside but I accept it. It?s when we can?t escape it in our own
home that?s an issue.
Sarah
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On Sep 9, 2025, at 9:24?PM, Jenn Warren via BPW <bpw
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wrote:
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I kind of enjoy it every now and then. Brings a little life to our neighborhood. I have
lived in this neighborhood for most of my 30+ years in Raleigh and there have been only a
couple of times where I thought they could tune it down a notch.
Being so close to down town plus living in an area where you also have a yard is one of
the things I love about our hood(just my opinion)
JK
Rankin St.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2025, 4:16?PM Eric Hill via BPW
<bpw@eastraleigh.org<mailto:bpw@eastraleigh.org>> wrote:
Thanks for writing that Susan. Have you heard back from anyone yet?
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 7:22?PM Susan Evans via BPW
<bpw@eastraleigh.org<mailto:bpw@eastraleigh.org>> wrote:
Dear City Council Members,
I first want to express my gratitude for your service to the citizens of Raleigh, but
I also need to ask for your help with a problem that is unnecessarily and unfairly making
life difficult for me and other citizens you represent. Complaints have gone to the
Raleigh Police Department but they seem unsure and unable to help because of the
city's policies/standards/laws/ordinances , or whatever the problem is.
It's clear to all citizens of Raleigh that if someone came to my house, uninvited
and unwanted, and threw their pizza & beer into my house the police would be able to
stop that kind of assault. Why, then, is Bowstrings Pizza & Brewery at 1930 Wake
Forest
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continuously allowed, uninvited and unwanted, to force their music INTO my house without
the police being able to stop them from this kind of audible home invasion. On both this
past Saturday and Sunday I was not able to use my back yard, my patio, or even my living
room INSIDE MY HOUSE because of the excessively LOUD music coming from this business, now
called Bowstrings Brewyard!!!
I have complained to police way too many times for this problem to persist. I have had
Raleigh police officers in my back yard, on my patio, and even inside my house, hearing
for themselves the music I am assaulted with regularly, and yet they, and the City of
Raleigh, have not stopped this madness!
I don't choose to visit Bowstrings Pizza because I don't want to listen to
their music, which is my right, of course. But, the management at Bowstrings are
literally inserting their music INTO my house and my yard against my will and I am,
apparently, powerless to stop this audible assault. What can you, as a city council do to
protect me and others in my neighborhood whose lives are being disrupted by this music
from a business that started up long after our homes were built and occupied??
I have lived on Dennis Ave, off Capital Blvd in the Belvidere Park/Wo odcrest
neighborhood for 38 years and I have never experienced the kind of problem that is going
on, and on, and on, and on with Bowstrings blasting their music into my yard & my
house!!! You know this isn't right, and you are the ones who must protect my right to
live in peace in my house (and on my patio) in Raleigh, without being forced to listen to
music that I choose not to hear. I'm not able to sit and read a book, watch TV, or
talk on the phone in my living room because someone I don't even know is attacking me
with their music which I choose not to hear. Please protect my rights!
The citizens of Raleigh always have been, and are now entitled to peace and quiet
inside our homes. No business should be allowed to take priority over the rights of the
citizens. PLEASE HELP YOUR CITIZENS!!!!!!!!!!
Sincerely,
Susan Riddle Evans
Dennis Ave, Raleigh NC
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