Last year, Toronto received 10,000 noise complaints. Most of the noise was from bars, nightclubs, and concert venues.
The city intends to set zones to control noise, but there are many cases where the rules are ambiguous, such as when restaurants become nightclubs only late at night. Especially in a two- or three-story apartment building with a restaurant on the first floor, the noise is so loud that some people can’t sleep until midnight. In 2020, there were 6,821 complaints, but by 2021, there will be 9,822 complaints.
Surveys have shown that this number is much higher than noise pollution caused by construction work. There are limits on how loud and time the heavy machinery used in the construction can be put out, but there is also a view to further controlling noise from bars and nightclubs.