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Chairman Scurlock asked Commissioner Wheeler if he wants the <br />County to get involved in litigating every neighborhood problem, <br />but Commissioner Wheeler believed that is what we are doing now. <br />Commissioner Bird felt the best way to go is to write a <br />letter to the managers of the shopping center asking them for <br />their cooperation in changing their cleaning equipment and <br />methods in order to try to reduce the noise to accommodate the <br />neighbors. <br />Attorney Vitunac advised that the Code Enforcement Board <br />could enforce a specific regulation such as no cleaning of <br />parkings lots between certain hours. <br />Director Keating noted that St. Lucie County recently <br />adopted an noise ordinance and we are watching that very closely. <br />One of the unusual or difficult aspects of it is that a deputy <br />has to bring a decibel reader along when answering a call on a <br />noise complaint and use it for at least 25 minutes. It is very <br />time consuming and St. Lucie County went through a long process <br />in adopting their ordinance and had some nationally recognized <br />noise experts working on it. We have a copy of it and are <br />watching to see how well it is working. From that standpoint, <br />staff certainly would be willing to work with the County Attorney <br />on some kind of a general nuisance ordinance. He pointed out, <br />however, that the whole concept of the Zoning Code and the <br />buffering requirements in the Comp Plan in designating nodes is <br />to restrict commercial activities in certain areas and buffer as <br />29 <br />FEB 2 3 1988 <br />BOOK 7 F �. <br />