Small Crowd Raises Big Voice In Favor Of Proposed Noise Law
BY ERIC CARLSON
Only about 2(1 people showed up
Monday night to support a plan for
regulating noise in Brunswick
County. Hut they made their voices
heard loud and clear.
"Either y'all can do something
about it or I'm going to take my
shotgun and do something." said
Billy Ray Jordan of Maco. "I've had
four years of it and that's all I can
take. They can get ready to put me
in jail."
Jordan was complaining about
voung people driving recreational
vehicles up and down his road,
about loud music and gunshots be
ing fired at all hours of the night.
"I don't know how anybody can
call thai music," said Keith Hewctt
of Leland. "I don't know how they
can stand it. Sometimes it shakes the
air inside our house with the doors
and windows closed. And we live a
half-mile away.
"We want to see something done
legally. We don't want to lake the
law into our own hands," he said.
Similar comments were made by
the 13 residents who spoke in favor
of a new noise ordinance under con
sideration by the Brunswick County
Board of Commissioners. A public
hearing was held on the draft law
Monday night.
The ordinance is intended "to ap
ply a general standard capable of de
termination by an objective, de
tached reasonable person as to pro
hibit loud or disturbing noise."
It would prohibit the operation of
construction machinery, chain saws,
power tools and lawn mowers dur
ing evening and early morning
hours.
It would also make illegal any
yelling, shouting, whistling, singing
or playing music "with such volume
as to unreasonably annoy or disturb
the quiet, comfort or repose of a per
son."
The draft law was presented to
the commissioners for consideration
March 21 after the board received
numerous requests from the public
for regulation of noise in the county.
lid Morrison of Holiday Haven
told the board Monday that he is
"2(H) percent in favor of a noise or
dinance." but he doesn't care about
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lawn mowers and chain saws. He
said the major problem in his neigh
borhood comes from off-road mo
torcycles buzzing up and down the
street.
Another resident of the subdivi
sion, Ralph Coburn. suggested that
the county designate an area where
young people can ride motorcycles
and not disturb the public.
W.H. Roy Sr. of Lcland was one
of several residents who complained
about loud "boom boxes" being
played late at night in a nearby
Navassa park.
"It shakes the windows in our
house," Roy said. "I've called
everybody from (Navassa Mayor)
Bobby Brown to the sheriff and no
body does anything. I feel like get
ting my .270 rifle and cutting across
out there."
Several of those who attended the
hearing said they had been told by
sheriff's deputies that nothing could
be done about the noise until the
county adopts an ordinance regulat
ing it.
No action was taken on the draft
law Monday night. The hoard asked
County Attorney Michael Ramos to
review it for further consideration at
a later meeting.
In another matter, the board an
nounced the settlement agreements
for two lawsuits Hied against the
county.
Former county building inspector
John W. "Billy" Ingram was paid
$39,(KX) for dropping his personal
injury claim filed against the county
last May. Ingram's lawsuit claimed
that his May, 1990, dismissal violat
ed the county personnel policy and
demanded more than $100,000 in
back pay plus legal fees.
Brunswick County's insurance
does not cover the case, so the set
tlement will be paid out of general
fund revenues.
The other suit, filed in May, 1992,
by Edward Noble Jr. against Sheriff
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of social services. Two Wilmington
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? Went into closed session for
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personnel." Members said afterward
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candidates being considered as a
temporary replacement for County
Manager Wyman Yelton, who re
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? Recessed the meeting until
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