Legally, the frat does not need the borough’s permission to hold the event itself - much like the frat’s neighbors don’t need a permit to hold a family reunion on their property while playing music. The borough now plans to fix that oversight - but, in the meantime, the frat had proverbially fallen through the cracks. (The borough has since discovered it’s opposed.) But that wasn’t necessarily the fault of the frat.īecause noise waiver requests aren’t typically submitted for private property (or at least by non-home owners), there’s no section in the borough paperwork that requires the owner to sign off on it. The actual reason borough staff wanted to pull the frat’s noise waiver, which was submitted in June and granted in July, involved the fact the frat never received approval from the housing corporation that owns the property. “But music? Happy people at a party outside, listening to a DJ who came all the way from France? That’s kind of cool.” “I will absolutely make a request that they make sure there is sufficient crowd control, that both our police department know ahead and they know ahead that crowd control is a potentially dangerous thing,” Councilwoman Theresa Lafer said.
