{"id":248563,"date":"2026-04-14T03:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:15:23","slug":"dallas-park-and-recreation-director-says-city-has-learned-its-lesson-after-noise-complaints-over-fair-park-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248563\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Park and Recreation Director says city has &#8216;learned its lesson&#8217; after noise complaints over Fair Park festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a weekend of East Dallas residents complaining of hearing music <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/dallas-city-leaders-address-resident-024548062.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:from a Fair Park Festival miles away;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;from a Fair Park Festival miles away&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from a Fair Park Festival miles away<\/a>, Dallas Park and Recreation Director John Jenkins said the city has &#8220;learned its lesson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For two nights straight, residents in East Dallas and Lakewood said they heard something unusual, loud music echoing through their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Neighbors described a steady, pounding beat that carried late into the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sound came from the Breakaway Music Festival and concerts at Dos Equis Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Jenkins, the festival used a new stage setup involving two stages. One location the city had used before, but the other faces out toward open space, which the city attributed to the noise issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Low clouds were also a contributing factor to the noise traveling further, Jenkins said. Now, whenever there are low clouds, he said the city knows it will need to reposition and watch the decibel levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe want to be a good neighbor, and we will make any adjustments necessary, as we did Saturday night,&#8221; Jenkins said. \u201cWe learned our lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rudy Karimi with the Dallas Park and Recreation Department said the goal is to keep Fair Park vibrant while also protecting residents\u2019 quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou could hear it all the way down the block, everything,\u201d said Maxwell Stirnweis, who works at Laboratory DTX in Lower Greenville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said the noise quickly became a topic of conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s really cool to see all these new and interesting things come around,\u201d Stirnweis said. \u201cYeah, it might be a little too loud when I can hear it over here, but it\u2019s still super cool to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Residents took to social media and neighborhood apps like Nextdoor to express frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a weekend of East Dallas residents complaining of hearing music from a Fair Park Festival miles away,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93918,94458,5474,5253,36941],"class_list":{"0":"post-248563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-dallas-park-and-recreation-department","12":"tag-dallas-park-and-recreation-director","13":"tag-east-dallas","14":"tag-fair-park","15":"tag-john-jenkins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}