About
Mission
The Quiet Enjoyment Project works to restore residential quality of life in Boulder neighborhoods affected by recurrent excessive noise, through public data, education, voluntary compliance, and public-interest enforcement of existing law. The name is the legal term: every lease and every home in Colorado carries a right to quiet enjoyment, and Boulder’s own code makes disrupting the quiet enjoyment of a home an offense (B.R.C. 5-9-5).
How we work
- Data first: our reports are built from Boulder Police records and the city’s open-data portal, cross-validated, with methodology published and analysis code available on request.
- Everyone gets the same rules: our concern is conduct and properties — students, owners, institutions, and events alike.
- Escalation, not ambush: education first, owner notice second, city enforcement third, and courts only for the chronic few after everything else fails.
How we govern this work
- Corrections come first. Any owner, resident, or official who believes a figure we have published is wrong can write to us, and we correct promptly and visibly. We publish the underlying data so that anyone can check our arithmetic without asking our permission.
- We publish conduct, not people. We name property addresses and owners of record — both matters of public record — and we do not publish the names of residents, callers, or students. Complaint counts are reported as what they are: calls logged by police, not findings of violation.
- Court is the last step, and we say up front that we may take it. Education first, owner notice second, city enforcement third. For the few properties that answer none of that, this project may ask a court to abate the nuisance — in its own name, or on behalf of affected members — and we would rather state that plainly than spring it on anyone. What we do not do is practise law or represent individual residents: a resident pursuing their own claim needs counsel of their own, and we will say so every time.
- We say when we are asking to change the law. Most of what we ask for is administrative — enforce and administer the ordinances Boulder already has, which needs no new legislation. Where the data convinces us an ordinance itself should change, we advocate for that too, and we label it plainly rather than mixing it in with the enforcement asks. The distinction is the reader’s to check, not ours to blur.
- We publish every dollar, but not every name. A 501(c)(4) does not have to disclose anything about its funding. We post every contribution amount and every expense to a public ledger anyway, because an organization that publishes other people’s records should show its own — you can see what this project runs on, and whether any single gift is big enough to matter. Donor identities are the one thing we keep private: in a neighborhood this small, supporting quiet should not carry a social price. What keeps that honest is the item below — eligibility is mechanical, so there is nothing a donor could be buying.
- Eligibility is entirely public-data-driven. Which properties appear in our reporting is determined solely by public police records, applied on published criteria. There is no discretionary step and no editorial judgment about who belongs on the list. Nobody — not the people who run this project, not anyone who supports it financially — can add a property or remove one. The data decides, and we publish the data so that anyone can run the same criteria and get the same list.
Who we are
Founded by University Hill residents in 2025 after three years of documented escalation in neighborhood noise.
The Quiet Enjoyment Project is an independent, resident-run organization. It is not affiliated with the University Hill Neighborhood Association (UHNA), the University of Colorado, or the City of Boulder, and it takes no money from any of them.
Contact
yourneighbor@quietenjoymentproject.org — residents, owners, media, corrections, and offers to help all welcome.
Support
This work is paid for by the people it serves. We are not a registered charity, we make no 501(c)(3) claim, and contributions are not tax-deductible — what a donation does and does not buy is set out in full on the support page.
This website is an initial version, published August 2026. Thoughtful feedback on any of it — the data, the law, the recommendations — is genuinely welcome at the same address.