Loveland, CO Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Section 7.32.060, the exceptions section of Loveland's noise ordinance, lists categories of sound the city has chosen not to regulate under Chapter 7.32, and aircraft noise is one of them, in this Larimer County, Colorado city. Subsection B states plainly that all sound emanating from any aircraft, church, warning or emergency signal device used or authorized by any government agency, or program incident to the recognition or celebration of Veteran's Day, shall not be subject to the provisions of the chapter. That means the zone-based decibel ceilings in § 7.32.040, residential, commercial, and industrial limits alike, and the unreasonable-noise standard in § 7.32.010, do not apply to aircraft overflying or operating near Loveland, including operations at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport that Loveland co-owns with Fort Collins.

The exemption sits alongside the chapter's other carve-outs in § 7.32.060: authorized emergency vehicles responding to calls, city-licensed temporary events like parades and firework displays, and railroad rights-of-way, which are instead folded into the industrial-zone standard rather than exempted outright. Because the ordinance excludes aircraft sound entirely rather than setting a special, looser aircraft limit, a Loveland resident cannot use Chapter 7.32 as a basis for a municipal noise complaint or citation against aircraft operations; any recourse over aircraft noise runs through the airport operator or federal aviation channels, not the city's noise code.