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St. Augustine tightens noise rules; commission approves amended nightlife ordinance
Summary
After two years of review, the City Commission unanimously approved amendments to the city noise ordinance, including treating hotels and similar lodgings as residential for enforcement, shifting Thursday quiet hours to 10 p.m., and a requirement that transient lodging complaints be referred to management before police enforcement.
The City Commission of St. Augustine unanimously approved ordinance 2025-08 on second reading, amending the city’s noise-control rules to tighten nighttime limits in the downtown nightlife area and to clarify enforcement procedures for transient lodging.
Assistant Chief Anthony Cuthbert of the St. Augustine Police Department presented the ordinance’s changes and said the commission’s June 9 directives had been incorporated. The amendments treat all premises that contain habitually occupied sleeping quarters — including hotels, motels and bed-and-breakfasts — as residential uses for the purpose of the ordinance. The…
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