I remember a bunch of commie-libs trying to silence the (real) bells of St. Thomas Church (located in the heart of the grad-student ghetto) in Ann Arbor during the 1980's. They failed. "Moving to the nuisance," (term of art) and all that. I wonder if they ultimately got city council to go their way.
That city was the least tolerant place I ever lived in - a democrat bastion, to be sure. But I repeat myself...