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Tequesta council approves limited overnight roof work after safety warning and neighbor objections
Summary
After staff described hazardous roof decking at a shopping plaza, the Village of Tequesta approved limited overnight work (two weekend overnights plus Sunday daytime) for a roof replacement at 221 US Highway 1, after requiring neighbor notification and promising strict monitoring and the ability to stop work if problems arise.
Council approved a narrow exception Friday allowing a contractor to perform overnight work to address collapsing roof decking above a shopping center at 221 US Highway 1 after the building official warned that the decking had been compromised and work while businesses were open could endanger people below.
"There is a hazard because the decking has been compromised," Building Official Wayne Cameron told the council, describing areas where "you can see daylight" through the roof. He said the hazard is intensified when workers add weight or when rain occurs and that the safest option was to do repairs when no customers or employees occupy the businesses underneath.
The request was added to the agenda at the start of the meeting. Staff said the contractor and property owner asked for permission to work overnight from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. so crews could remove degraded decking and install new decking without people beneath. Cameron said his emergency authority covers only three days; the contractor requested a two‑week window to complete the plaza roof.
Council and residents pressed for alternatives. Several council members highlighted noise, light spill and forklift beeping; residents and councilors said they did not want prolonged overnight noise without prior notice. "If I live behind there and I haven't had two young kids, and it's waking up my kids, I'm coming out there in my underwear and I'm yelling," one resident said during public comment.
After hours of discussion the council adopted a compromise motion. Staff will notify neighboring homes the morning after the meeting; the contractor will not start that night. Subject to that notice and to conditions requiring a contact phone number, directed lighting and monitoring, crews may work overnight Friday and Saturday nights and may continue work on Sunday day hours through 5 p.m. The council recorded a 4–1 vote in favor of the plan.
Council members and the building official said the work will be monitored and can be shut down if safety problems or unmanageable nuisance complaints arise. "I will shut it down the job if I see something going south," Cameron said.
The council also urged the property owner to provide door‑hanger notices to adjacent residents and to use loading and lighting arrangements that minimize disturbance to the homes behind the plaza.
What happens next: Staff will issue the neighborhood notice, monitor the contractor for compliance with lighting and noise restrictions, and return to council if the situation changes or expanded relief is requested.
