SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. — A web based petition is circulating round Security Harbor the place native companies need to handle ongoing noise ordinance points within the metropolis.
The enterprise house owners say legislation enforcement is being referred to as in the course of the center of the day and through prime working hours over complaints that reside music is being too loud.
Music, based on James Michael, proprietor of Screaming Jalapeno in Security Harbor, is intertwined with the town.
“Music brings you brings memories back,” Michael mentioned. “You know, it takes you to places where you can say, ‘I remember driving down that road when I heard this song.’”
The Screaming Jalapeno is a Tex-Mex restaurant on Foremost Road in Security Harbor.
Michael grew up on this city and mentioned he has liked to see it advanced through the years.
“When I grew up living here, this was kind of the wrong side of the railroad tracks,” he mentioned. “And now that’s all completely changed, and Safety Harbor is now one of the best places to live in Tampa Bay.”
Lately, nonetheless, he mentioned one thing has come up that has led to him and a number of the different companies on the town to lift their collective voice.
Based on Michael, this previous weekend, whereas the restaurant subsequent door, Bar Fly, was having an out of doors reside music present, earlier than 10 p.m., the restaurant acquired a quotation in reference to the town’s noise ordinance.
The metropolis’s ordinance says downtown companies can’t have “loud and raucous noise” and that reside music can’t occur between 11 p.m. and seven a.m.
Michael mentioned complaints are coming in for noise in the midst of the afternoon.
“There are certain groups of people in town who have started making complaints at 3:30 (p.m.) on a weekend and calling our local deputies out,” he mentioned. “There’s a disconnect. And we just kind of want to get on the same page.”
The proprietor of Bar Fly, who wasn’t out there to talk with Bay News 9 on Monday afternoon, made an internet petition and he, together with Michael and different companies in Security Harbor, requested individuals to go to Monday’s Metropolis Fee assembly to voice their issues on what complaints would possibly do to future reside music occasions on the town.
“We can’t let a few dozen, and literally that’s what it is, impact the thousands of people that come out every Third Friday to enjoy live music,” Michael mentioned.
Throughout Monday’s metropolis fee assembly, based on its agenda, the fee plans to debate targets for 2025 and 2026 whereas trying again ultimately 12 months’s targets, which included reviewing the noise ordinance in 2023.
Homeowners, like Michael, hope the individuals talking up on the fee can come to a mutual understanding so everyone seems to be on the identical web page and so the music can hopefully play on.
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