Business owners in downtown Fredericksburg arenât being quiet about a proposed noise ordinance scheduled for a City Council vote this month.
The owner of Billikenâs Smokehouse at the Chimneys has circulated an online petition that has been signed by more than 1,400 people encouraging the City Council not to go forward with the downtown ordinance.
A total of 16 lettersâall taking a strong stance against the ordinanceâwere read at the City Council meeting last week.
âYou canât keep regulating and regulating and regulating, because then people like me are gone,â said Gregory Shalawylo, the owner of Billikenâs Smokehouse restaurant on Caroline Street. âAnd then what do you have? You have nothing.