HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93008_0838 (2)point there. The noise is really extremely noticeable.
If that is an example of what we can expect when we get a cruise of 200 people coming
in, and they're not going to stand around and be silent for something, they are going to
have to be entertained, probably with music. And that goes on all day long, I'm afraid we
are going to be subject to a very loud lifetime. I would like to take some sort of
consideration of this, I would like you to take some sort of consideration of this in the
control of the noise pollution that would be engendered by an operation that is
essentially an entertainment complex. Entertainment today consists primarily of music,
loud music. When you've become old as I have, you probably don't like the loud music as
well as my children do.
That is one major consideration. The other one is what do you do about the pollution
of the lake itself from a commercial operation. Davidson Landing had to punch a sewer
line underneath the highway to tie into the Mecklenburg County sewer. How effective is a
septic tank operation when you are having a crowd of as many as Mr. Grier points out, 400
people on the dock at one time? Do you have septic tank facilities that will effectively
guard the quality of water in the lake from crowds consistently using their area?
Those are the things we are concerned with over on the Mecklenburg side of the line.
Though we are not immediately adjacent to the property in question, we are certainly
within very easy earshot of it.
I appreciate your giving me the time to speak, and I will appreciate your
�- consideration.
HEDRICK: Anyone else care to comment?
PRICE YATES: I'm not a public speaker as Mr. Thomas is, but I agree with everything
he says. I live across the lake, too.
GRIER: Mr. Chairman, I would like to put both those gentlemen's minds at ease if I
might.
About a year and a half ago, I went to each regulatory agency that has anything to do
with what we are about to do. There are 19 of them that I have to answer to. There are
four different agencies in the health department. I met with one of them this morning.
We will put in an approved sewage disposal plant according to their requirements.
We are very conscious of the noise level down there. I have examined it both on our
side and on the Davidson Landing, and I really don't think there is anything that we're
going to do over on the Robert E. Lee side that will be heard at all across that causeway.
It's 3,000 feet over there. Whatever comes out of the boat itself, if anything, would be
while it's docked. That's the way it was before.
It's housed. So that will not be (not clear) . The music on the dock will be
controlled by our own sound system and trained away from these folks' area.
I don't believe there's anything we do over there that will be heard above the sound
of the tractor trailers that are going across there now. I have been down ther and
listened in anticipation of this type thing. The very last thing we want to do is to
become a nuisance. We want you people to live (not clear) . . . .
If there are any other questions, I'll be glad to answer.
AUDIENCE QUESTION: The music will be controlled and directod toward the front. When
you refer to "front," is that toward the highway?
GRIER: Well the highway and to the North. Confined to the dock.
QUESTION: In this direction, as opposed to down here or down toward Davidson
Landing?
GRIER: Yes.
QUESTION: So all of your music is going to be directed that way and the boat itself
will be in a housing?
GRIER: The boat is enclosed.
QUESTION: You mean the music in the boat itself?
GRIER: Nobody complained about it before.
QUESTION: Nobody complained when you were there before, except for the noise that
always seemed to be engendered around the boat while the people were waiting their turn to
ride.
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