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Originally Posted by hedoman
We were down in October for the Italian Festival and the music and fun lasted past 9 . We were strolling along the LS walk and could hear music from a number of places on the water. Is this a new ordinance?
All I can say is IT'S TIME FOR TOOOOGA! TOGA TOGA TOGA
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I still do not see anything in the ordinace posted for Sumter County which would empower the County Sheriff's office to put in a 8 p.m. noise limitation because the ordinace is about Sumter County. These "downtown" areas woud be what-- those of Oxford, Wildwood, Coleman, Lake Panasoffkee, Coleman, Croom-a-Coochee, Webster, Bushnell and a few small towns in between? Lake Sumter Landing seems to me to be more of a "downtown" area than any of these except maybe Bushnell's. I believe that Wildwood actually has a "curfew" in place at least for teens?
I also doubt that a country club in a large retirement community was what the writers of this ordinance had in mind with respect to putting in reasonable limitations on noise levels.
The 10 p.m. limit on "downtown" areas would seem to apply to Lake Sumter Landing if you put this ordinace in terms of Sumter County and not looking at it from say the Lake and/or Marion County perspective. Both Lake and Marion County have much bigger downtown areas in them than our rather rural Sumter County.
The posted Sumter County ordinace being used to limit entertainment on the squares seems like the Sheriff's office would be stretching the ordinace quite a bit farther than its authors intended.
I also do not see a restaurant with entertainment in a county club really being in the purview of the writers of the posted ordinance.