Ashwaubenon, WI Noise Ordinances: Decibel Limits (2026)

Section 17-4-300(E)(10)(g) governs car wash and auto-detailing facilities. It requires a 250-foot separation from any residential district unless four conditions are all met: an attendant on-site whenever the business is open, all washing, waxing, and machine drying done inside the building (vacuuming, hand-drying, and hand-waxing may happen outdoors), vehicle-entry openings angled at least sixty degrees away from any adjacent residential property line, and outdoor vacuums and air compressors kept at or under sixty decibels measured at or beyond the property line. A solid six-foot fence or wall is also required along any line adjoining a residential district, an existing residential use, a religious institution, a community service use, a daycare, a school, or a public park.

This is the corpus's clearest numeric noise standard: most other Ashwaubenon zoning provisions, including home occupations and restaurants with outdoor seating, rely on qualitative language like 'no unreasonable noise' rather than a decibel figure. The Village's Site Plan Review Committee evaluates a proposed car wash's compliance with these standards before site plan approval, and ongoing enforcement runs through Chapter 17's Article 9 enforcement clause.