To the Editor:

Our agreements are the only thing we humans can actually depend on. So, as a Princeton resident who lives off Nassau, I was wondering if this spring we might, as a community, agree on 9 a.m. as the time power tools can be turned on during the week and 10 a.m. on weekends. Currently power tools are turned on any time a person wants to use one — in my neighborhood usually around 8 a.m., any day.

This may seem an insignificant request to consider, yet “sound-noise” can be extremely intense and discordant to one’s whole system — perhaps in the background for many, yet for some, very much heard and noticed, very much a disruption.

Forming win-win agreements offers a truly sustainable benefit now, for all. Perhaps instead of beginning with our power tools in the morning, we can save that part of the project till a bit later? We will thrive with win-win agreements. “More power tool ya!” and everyone else too!

P.S.: Can we also ban squirrel alarms? The intensity of those high-pitched devices also causes incredible discord to the system and, if you live off Nassau, you live in “Squirrel Town.” There really is no keeping a squirrel off your property. They’re everywhere. So how about we agree to consider the possibility of that alarm as an “unsound-solution” to the ridding of squirrels; as actually worse than the “problem” — we’re all connected ….

Dana Lichtstrahl

Moran Avenue