During the confinement we experienced due to the pandemic, they often left a silence in the cities. As the restrictions increased Over time, this silence allowed noises to appear that were not previously taken into account and that began to be annoying.
Sounds from the mechanic's shop, a neighbor's dog barking, music or the noises of children playing. Thus, theComplaints about annoying noises began to be the first topic of conflict addressed by the mediation service of the municipality of Santa Fe.
pioneer city
Rosario has been one of the pioneer cities in enacting a rule related to annoying noises.
This standard prohibits in the urban territory, "causing, producing or stimulating unnecessary and/or excessive noise that, when propagated by air or solid means, affects or is capable of affecting the public, because it is not within the maximum permissible safety intensity limits."
The consortia increased the noise complaints and coexistence problems since the pandemic began and the measures to avoid Covid infections began. These complaints have doubled compared to previous years.
On the part of the neighbors tComplaints have also increased in the mediation offices that operate in the six municipal districts, but there was a significant increase in the central area.
Conflicts caused by changes in routines
Cardozo Villa, expresses that the fact that the families spend more time at home due to teleworking and where many children and adolescents have followed their school activities, "increases the tensions inherent to coexistence."
In these cases, mediation tries to find a solution to the problem, being a consensus of both parties.
Ines Zayas, lawyer, psychologist, mediator and is in charge of the Provincial Courts Mediation Office expresses «Virtuality is complex, this pandemic forced us to be more secluded, or to communicate in another way. School-age children and adolescents maintained their activities inside their homes, and many adults also worked from home. "This situation of everyone being at home, solving a lot of tasks, was noticeable in the type of cases that came to mediation since March of last year."
Faced with these problems and in order to solve them, tasks are carried out to facilitate communication, so that people are responsible for their actions and on the other hand an agreement of both parties.
