unusual guarantee
tommyThe Tribune had another roundtable. This time the subject is Ybor - what to do?? Yeah - we’ve heard it all before. But what makes this one different is the addition of a fortune teller:
“The noise will bubble to the surface when more people move in, and they will call down to the police department to complain,” Castor said. “They will come out to meetings when they are not able to sleep at night. I guarantee — I don’t expect; I can guarantee.”
Those words are from soothsayer Jane Castor, otherwise known as Tampa’s Assistant Police Chief.
I wonder if she knows how far the Bucs will go in the playoffs this year.
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December 7th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Quality demands quality.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:13 pm
Well the area will gentrify (code for the people who live there get older and richer, hence whinier) and she will probably be proved right. Doesn’t mean this is the kind of problem you really need to get ahead of though, it is ok to wait for people to complain before declaring there is a problem. Also I don’t remember the complaints being taken overly seriously when the residents of Ybor were a bunch of poor people.
December 8th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
I have been an activist of Ybor City since 1978 and an Ybor City resident since 1987. Tommy Duncan knows me well. I was on the Ybor Neighborhood Civic Commitee that proposed the noise ordinance about 8 years ago. It took the City legal department about 4 years to write and pass at City Council. It is still a problem, but in my opinion, it is the open air bars that cause the “problem” noise i.e. Fuel (I think that’s the name of that bar this week, it always changes…the old Frankie’s Patio). When the “noise police” were at the Blue’s Shark one night, I told them if they wanted real noise, check out Fuel. They claimed the the bass there was nondirectional. Yeah, well….it’s directed at my house at 5th Ave. and 19th St. every Thurs.-Sat nite. My house vibrates and I complained to the City before “rich” people moved here and I still complain. So the noise problem has been bubbling up for years, no matter rich or poor. Hey Jane…come spend a night in my backyard and let’s talk about the noise ordinance in the morning.