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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 Page 33 music can be played. Many residents of downtown condominiums have objected to outdoor noise, while patrons of downtown establishments are urging a relaxation of the regulations to promote more ���vitality��� downtown. However, downtown condominium residents object to the lack of enforcement of the sound ordinance downtown. Jill Kaplan, representing Burns Square, also was proposed as a member of the ad hoc committee. She, too, spoke to the DID board on City Attorney Robert Fournier/Photo by NorMarch 19: ���[While] the City Commission shut man Schimmel down the process last night, I hope you as a group will urge them to reconsider their de- let the attorney look at that. And enforcement: Let the administration work with that,��� he told cision.��� his fellow commissioners. ���Let���s be less subjective and more objective.��� WHAT IS NEXT AND WHY? The DID agenda included a discussion item about supporting the city���s ad hoc sound ordinance committee. But with the City Commission having nixed the idea the night before, there was little for the DID members to By mid-March, the Downtown Improvement do except listen to the reactions of Fanning, District board was saying the same thing. Thorpe and Kaplan. ���The DID needs to decide what we want to be After the two town hall-style meetings and when we grow up. An entertainment district? two lengthy City Commission discussions, A shopping district?��� said member Dr. Mark Caragiulo is ready to give the issue a rest. The Kaufman. ���I think the residents here have a restaurateur used a culinary metaphor to dereal problem, and I think the DID should make scribe its status to The Sarasota News Leada statement supporting them. Or not.��� er. ���This is going from the oven to the food Caragiulo opened the early March commission discussion on the noise ordinance by saying, ���You need to look at it as a land-use issue and a planning issue.��� ���We came up with an ordinance. It���s right here. It���s in black and white and covers everything we���re talking about,��� said Paul Thorpe, holding up a copy of the Sound Control document at the DID meeting. ���The biggest problem is, we���re not enforcing any of it.��� That was the same message Caragiulo tried to get across the night before. ���It���s a very contentious issue. It���s very emotional,��� he said. ���It���s critical to split this ��� look at the policy side; warmer. It is not ready to be served yet,��� he said. ���Everybody needs to focus more.��� In the meantime, pressure is on the city administration and police to begin enforcing the Sound Control Ordinance. At the same time, the section of the zoning code banning amplified recorded music outdoors remains unenforced ��� by order of the city manager ��� because enforcement threatens a legal challenge on First Amendment grounds. %