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Siesta Seen UPDATE ON GIDGET'S delay of the ordinance's sunset for another year would enable staff to engage residents Brian and Trudy Wigelsworth really had hoped in discussions on revisions of the ordinance's their new shop, Gidget's Coastal Provisions, noise sections, especially in regard to maxiwould be open before the holiday season mum decibel levels. commenced. It is going up where Napoli's once stood, next to the Siesta Key Oyster Bar She added that staff members already planned on Ocean Boulevard. Nonetheless, it appears a neighborhood meeting in South County on mid-January is the target time, Brian told me Jan. 20 and were working to find a North County venue for a second session. last week. "But it's coming along," he added. In fact, he On Nov. 13, Donna LaDue, the administrasaid, the concrete pour was three days earlier tive specialist in the Zoning Office, told me the North County meeting "has not yet been than expected. scheduled." In the meantime, Mark Loveridge, project manager in the county's Planning and A Nov. 5 memo to the County Commission Development Services office, told me on Nov. from the zoning staff points out that represen13 that the request for construction of three tatives from that office, Code Enforcement transient apartments on the upper level of and the county's Neighborhood Services Gidget's may come before the county Planning office already had held initial meetings with Commission on Dec. 19. various civic associations regarding the Air and Sound Pollution Ordinance. "These Loveridge said the agenda has not been finalmeetings have not revealed any substantial ized, adding he would let me know as soon as concern with the regulations relating to the it is. … Ordinance with the exception of the Siesta Key Village community," the memo adds. THE NOISE On Nov. 5, the County Commission voted unanimously to extend the sunset date of the Air and Sound Pollution Ordinance to Nov. 18, 2014, to provide staff extra time to hold public meetings on several matters. The ordinance had been scheduled to sunset on Nov. 18 of this year — after the County Commission approved a one-year extension of the sunset originally set for Nov. 18, 2012. SIESTA CLEANUP No person asked to speak during the public SKA Vice President Michael Shay announced hearing on the extension. at the organization's Nov. 7 meeting that an Donna Thompson, the county's assistant zon- Adopt-A-Road pickup will be held on Saturday, ing administrator, told the commission the Nov. 23, sponsored by the SKA and SKVA.