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Sarasota News Leader October 4, 2013 Page 69 SUNSET EXTENSIONS PLANNED FOR NOISE AND SOUND AND AIR POLLUTION ORDINANCES The Sarasota County Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 5, regarding another extension of the sunset dates for its Noise Ordinance and its Air and Sound Pollution Ordinance. During a Sept. 24 presentation to the County Commission, Donna Thompson, the county's assistant zoning administrator, pointed out that the board granted extensions of the ordinances' sunset dates last year. Without another extension, she said, they will expire on Nov. 18, while staff is continuing to work on both of them. County staff has been meeting with representatives of the Fire Department and the A band plays outside at Siesta Village's Blasé Sarasota County Sheriff's Office on new Café in March 2012. Some residents on Siesta language for the Air and Sound Pollution ordiKey maintain the county needs stricter nance, Thompson noted. Further, staff with measures in its Noise Ordinance. File photo the Zoning and Code Enforcement offices have been working with members of the com- "recent state legislative action preempting munity on revisions to the Noise Ordinance, local authority to regulate broadcast burning, agricultural pile burning, or silvicultural she said. pile burning and requiring delegation from In a Sept. 24 memo to the County Commission, the Florida Forest Service to authorize land staff members — including Thompson, Natural clearing burns." Resources Department Director Amy Meese The second round of sunset date extensions and Tom Polk, the county's Planning and would allow staff to conduct one last comDevelopment Services director — sought the munity outreach effort, Thompson told the extensions of the sunset dates. They pointed commission, "to include a majority of the seaout that meetings with various civic organizasonal residents who will return in the fall, so tions in regard to the Noise Ordinance "have we will have a well-rounded opinion of what not revealed any substantial concern with the is being proposed." regulations," except on Siesta Key. The commission voted unanimously to They also wrote that when the commission authorize advertisement of the Nov. 5 public approved the first extensions — on Sept. hearing. 25, 2012 — staff was trying to amend the Sound and Air Pollution Ordinance to reflect Rachel Brown Hackney