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Residents urge county action on pickleball noise and developers' pipeline; caller urges higher pay for planning commissioners
Summary
During public comment, a resident requested health-protection and land-use ordinances for pickleball noise citing a medical analysis; another resident urged council action to address a large development application pipeline; an on-line caller suggested increasing Planning & Zoning commissioner pay to attract professionals.
Several speakers used the public-comment period at the July 22 Sussex County Council meeting to raise concerns about noise from pickleball courts, the number and scale of development applications in the pipeline, and planning commission staffing.
Jennifer August, a Rehoboth resident, asked council to consider a health-protection and land-use ordinance for existing communities that would address "pickleball noise pollution." August said she had a medical analysis she wanted to distribute and listed health effects…
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