Nutty Brown Cafe is a restaurant/bar/ outdoor music venue on 290 West and Nutty Brown Rd. In the last couple of years they have built a larger outdoor theater where they regularly play music at very loud volumes. So loud that the Hays County Sheriff's office receives numerous phone calls of complaint each weekend. Nutty Brown is careful not to exceed the legal limit of decibels and so the sheriff's hands are really tied on this issue. However, even within the legal limits, people living over 2 miles away can hear the music loudly enough to understand lyrics in their own homes with their doors and windows closed. The owner does turn the music off at 11:00 pm - but tell that to any person who needs to wake early or child who is trying to get to sleep and it's not much help.
Recently, a group of people who would like the music turned down has tried to let the issue be known. They were interviewed on KXAN. The interview can be heard here http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=717729.
Mike Farr, owner of Nutty Brown Cafe states he wants to be a good neighbor. However, look at the message posted on the Nutty Brown Cafe sign just days after the interview
Does this look like a good neighbor? I ask developers (Lennar, Pulte, Wilshire, and other developers of Belterra, Highpointe, and Ledgestone neighborhoods) is this going to help your home sales?New buyers - do you want to buy where this sort of conflict and regular noise is going on?
Current home owners - what do you think this is doing to your property value? Many of us have lived here for years. We came here because of the quiet. Don't we have rights as well?
As a mother, wife and home owner in this Southwest Austin/Dripping Springs area I ask all of you to please become active to get the message across to Nutty Brown that we want the music turned down!
We are not trying to shut down Nutty Brown. We are not trying to hurt Mike Farr and/or his employees. We want to be able to live peacefully in our homes, have our children sleep, and not worry about being unable to get up in the mornings because of his music.
TURN IT DOWN NUTTY BROWN!
