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Sarasota News Leader December 6, 2013 Page 16 NEIGHBORS OF BOB'S BOATHOUSE CONTINUE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOISE AS SARASOTA COUNTY STAFF AND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE WORK ON REMEDIES By Rachel Brown Hackney Editor At 12:50 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, Michelle Lee, who lives near Bob's Boathouse on South Tamiami Trail, emailed Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Barbetta to describe an ordeal that threatened her enjoyment of the holiday. exhausted, my back is in knots and I am so tired of taking over-the-counter sleeping pills. This is just not right!!!" She was writing about Bob's Boathouse, which opened on Nov. 3 at 5515 S. Tamiami Trail, right across Phillippi Creek from her "The blasts of music that travel across the home. water whenever anyone goes outside to the Eight days earlier, the County Commission deck [keep] me on edge until I just cannot unanimously voted to ask Interim County take it any more. So I get up, take a sleeping Administrator Tom Harmer to work with staff pill, and start working on doing what I can and the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office — about this nightmare. My neighbor said it is "with a sense of urgency," as Commissioner [not] a nightmare because you wake up from Christine Robinson put it — to come up with those. We never get away from the cacophony a plan of action to address the multitude of of noises that bombard us all day and night complaints from neighbors of the restaurant long. My stress level is through the roof, I am and bar. The South Trail Church of Christ is visible from the back deck of Bob's Boathouse. Photo by Rachel Hackney