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Sarasota commission opens debate on rewritten noise ordinance, directs staff to fill technical details
Summary
City attorney reorganized the city—s sound rules and proposed a new "plainly audible" night standard; commissioners directed staff and police to propose the precise hours and measurement locations for a future vote.
The Sarasota City Commission on Jan. 21 took the next step toward overhauling the city—s sound regulations, directing the city attorney to work with staff and the police department to fill several technical gaps in a reorganized ordinance that would add a nighttime "plainly audible" standard.
City Attorney Robert Fournier told commissioners the draft reorganizes chapter 20 of the city code to make enforcement clearer and removes categories that have proved confusing, such as separate rules for "amplified" sound and the distinction between "continuous" and "impulsive" sources. Instead, it would distinguish between sound coming from inside a building and sound originating outdoors, and it would add a plainly audible test that could create a rebuttable presumption…
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