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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 for everybody ��� if we���re moving along with a more active live-work-play downtown, and there are a lot of young people, and it���s not just about coming down and playing music forever. Page 20 town ��� carry sound much more efficiently than an area that has a lot of things to absorb the sound. The whole idea you want to identify the person complaining is an opportunity to intimiIt���s part of diversifying the economy. Some date that person out of making a complaint, people want to come downtown, listen to mu- rather than resolving the issue. sic, hear it in a restaurant, make it a bit more I am willing to look at the issue, but I���m not viable. You bet I���m willing to look at it. willing to change things unless there is more competent analysis. ��� ��� ��� Do you support Paul Caragiulo���s efforts There���s some buzz about ���live-workplay��� downtown, vitality downtown. And to reevaluate the noise ordinance? the noise ordinance seems to be in the Chapman: I think the noise ordinance was way of that. carefully considered in 2003. I do believe there are technological issues that might re- Chapman: The development community and solve some of the conflict. But if those techno- The HuB types [say that]. My feeling about logical issues don���t work, I go for the people live-work downtown is we���ve been there, who have a vested interest already. Recreation done that. We have two buildings that are still authorized under the Downtown Residential needs to take a back seat to quality of life. Overlay District (DROD) that haven���t been An ���entertainment zone��� has been pro- built. [The one at] 1350 Main was built under posed. the DROD, and the units that were built as Chapman: An entertainment district only so-called attainable units have not been sold works if you don���t fully understand how sound because there���s not a market for them. operates. Sound does not operate like vision, which deteriorates over distance. Controlling sound is an issue of absorption, and it���s a very difficult technological issue, as I know from living in a neighborhood that faced a sound issue [quieting Sarasota Memorial Hospital���s emergency generators]. We talk a lot about creating supply without analyzing whether there is demand. I have been to events with young people at The HuB. The striking thing, the depressing then is, many of them don���t have a steady paycheck job. So to talk about live-work, if these young people cannot afford the units that are proposed, it���s an empty promise. It just rewards speculative It���s much more complex than has been addevelopment. dressed so far. I do not favor changing the noise ordinance without facing the complex- Without a careful analysis of demand, we���re ity of how sound operates. Sound is vibration just rewarding speculation again, without adand it reverberates off hard surfaces. Areas dressing the underlying problem. I talked to a that don���t have a lot of trees ��� like the down- few family people at The HuB, and they live in