Midtown disco pub faces closure for “loud music”

Aside from allegedly operating without a business permit, a disco pub located at an entertainment district along General Maxilom Avenue will face closure after City Hall learned that its owners have continued to ignore a demand for the establishment to install sound-proofing devices.

Gerry Marquez, urban poor consultant of Mayor Tomas Osmeña, has recommended for the closure of Club Pump after he confirmed that said disco pub owned by Julian Sy and Tano Ty caused “too much noise in the area.”

Joy Cabay, owner of Hotel Lé Carmen located along Osmeña Boulevard near the disco pub, had sent a formal letter to the City Hall complaining of the “loud noise coming from the club.”

Cabay said she already talked to the disco pub owners and requested them to “lower their sounds because it would affect hotel clients who could no longer sleep because of the loud noise the club creates till dawn.”

She added that the disco pub owners already promised to her last March that they would install sound-proof devices on their walls to minimize noise, but that the promise was not fulfilled. “Instead, the situation worsens when noise becomes louder starting May,” she said.

Further, Cabay said that due to the loud noise from the disco pub, many of their clients would not stay for long in the hotel citing lack of sleep.

The city’s anti-noise ordinance provides that operators of business establishments involving loud sounds, including video-karaoke bars, are required to install sound-proof devices.

Cabay cited she had visited other disco pubs in Cebu City and found out that music in said establishments is also “very loud, but you can’t hear it from outside.”

“What I’m trying to put across here is the message that if you’re into a disco club business fronting a hotel, and making very loud disco and techno music until the morning, then you must be considerate and responsible enough by installing sound-proof devices,” Cabay said in her letter. — Rene U. Borromeo/MEEV