Davis, CA Data Centers & Crypto Mining: Data Center Noise Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- Code
- Muni Code Sec. 24.02.020
- Home limit
- 55 dBA day / 50 night
- Industrial limit
- 60 dBA day / 55 night
- Absolute ceiling
- 80 dBA, Sec. 24.02.030
- Measured at
- Complainant's property plane
Summary
Davis caps sound at the complainant's property plane under Municipal Code Section 24.02.020: 55 dBA daytime and 50 dBA from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. at homes, and 60 dBA daytime with 55 dBA overnight at commercial and industrial property.
No person shall produce, suffer or allow to be produced on any public or private property, sounds at a level in excess of those enumerated in Table 1, when measured at its property plane or, if on any street or highway measured at the property plane of the nearest property.
(b) No person shall produce, suffer or allow to be produced on any multifamily residential property, sounds at a level in excess of those enumerated in Table 1, when measured inside any dwelling unit on the same property or twenty feet from the outside of the dwelling unit in which the noise source or sources may be located.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no person shall produce, suffer or allow to be produced any sound on any private or public property, which is audible to a person within any dwelling unit of a residential planned development or residentially zoned property, except within any dwelling unit which the sound source or sources are located to which is occupied or controlled by the person controlling such source; unless the permission, either written or verbal, of the occupants of all affected dwelling units has been obtained.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4915048; v22 updated 2026-05-19).
Full Breakdown
Municipal Code Section 24.02.020 Table No. 1 sets maximum noise by the affected property's land use, measured at that property's plane closest to the source. Residential: 55 dBA from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and 50 dBA from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. Commercial, industrial, and core commercial: 60 dBA from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 55 dBA from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Property bordering Highway 113 or Interstate 80 carries 65 dBA at any hour. Section 24.02.030 imposes an absolute ceiling of 20 dBA above Table No. 1, never exceeding 80 dBA. Zoning Section 40.24.040(a) adds octave-band sound pressure limits of 60, 40, and 30 decibels for industrial uses.
Violations & Fines
Noise over the Section 24.02.020 limits is a Chapter 24 violation enforced by Davis police and code enforcement through citations, and through the noise conditions imposed at performance standards review.
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