I had an apartment and then a new neighbor moved in next door. She put her dog in a cage that was in her bedroom closet. That bedroom closet was on the wall opposite my headboard side of my bed. Of course, when she went to work that dog would bark all day. I attempted to complain to the apartment manager but guess what happened? Nothing happened because that apartment manager also had a dog that she put in a cage and kept in her apartment while she was away.
In a different apartment I was on the ground floor. There was a lady above me who would let her dog do its business on her concrete patio which was above mine and then she would sweep it over the edge until my patio below looked like a minefield of dog turds.
Dogs need yards and should not be locked up in a cage or in an apartment nor should their barking invade the space of others.
If you own a dog, live in an apartment, and the noise from that dog’s barking is inside the apartments of your neighbors then you are a shitty inconsiderate person!
In my part of the world we build apartments with actual soundproofing. Using that technology, you don’t hear your neighbours at all.
Would love to see developers here do that, but I have as much faith in that they will do that as I do in believing that pigs will grow wings and fly at Mach 5.
Seems like something that could actually be worthwhile to put into the zoning codes, instead of complete inanity like R1, absolutely huge minimum lot sizes, absurd setbacks and minimum parking requirements.