Item - 2026.MM42.18

City Council on June 24 and 25, 2026, adopted the following:

1. City Council direct the City Manager to immediately work with Live Nation to retain a mutually agreeable third party acoustics engineer firm and/or sound expert – at its sole cost – to examine and review Rogers Stadium’s physical layout and structures and identify any capital improvements or acoustical enhancements and technologies that will mitigate sound dispersal (including bass) into the neighbouring communities, in consultation with the Ward Councillor and industry stakeholders and experts in the acoustics and sound industry.

2. City Council direct the City Manager and appropriate divisions to work with Live Nation, at their cost, to explore the option of building a sound barrier berm on the edge of the west Allen East District and any other property nearby property that would produce a reduction of sound.

3. City Council direct the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, and the Executive Director, Customer Experience to establish a harmonized and co-ordinated response policy in communicating to local residents’ noise complaints with consistent responses.

4. City Council request the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, in partnership with Live Nation to explore seasonally installed stationary noise monitoring at locations where there has been a history of noise complaints, to be paid for by Live Nation.