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Sarasota News Leader May 31, 2013 Page 91 Siesta Seen No word yet on the timeline for the project — or when the special exception request will be heard. Stay tuned. HOPE FOR MORE STAFF In perusing the County Commission email recently, I found a note from Tom Polk, director of planning and development services, to Commissioner Nora Patterson — who lives on Siesta — regarding some code enforcement issues. One special item of interest: Polk wrote, "As part of the upcoming 2014 budget discussions in June, Planning and Development Services The design of the exterior of the Terrace East will be requesting the [commission's] considcondominium complex in Siesta Village has eration of additional staffing levels for the boosted the level of sound coming from Blasé Code Enforcement division. We look forward Café across the street, research shows. File photo to working with the community to enhance lems — he mentioned that the positioning of our codes and processes." speakers in Blasé Café and the design of the More Code Enforcement staff is what Sies- Terrace East condominium complex across ta organizations have been seeking since last the street had contributed to significant noise problems for the Terrace East residents. year. The island's primary Code Enforcement officer, John Lally, has pointed out on many As a result of research he had undertaken, an occasion that violations of the noise ordi- Burns said he was working with Blasé Café nance are not the only problems he handles. owner Rami Nehme to adjust the location of Illegal home rentals, parking issues, signs that the speakers. do not conform to the zoning code — the list Polk's May 7 email to Patterson included the following news: "As part of multiple inspecgoes on. tions of [Blasé Café] during the month of AND SPEAKING OF NOISE … April, the speakers were found to be facing the correct direction and the officer also made Regular readers will remember that when inspections to ensure that entertainment was Code Enforcement Officer Kevin Burns ad- completed by 10 p.m. Violations were not dressed the Siesta Key Association in early found on inspections by Code Enforcement March — during a discussion of noise prob- or the Sheriff's Office." %