The Week Ahead: Downtown Noise Ordinance Up For Discussion

1. Advocates for downtown live music will have their chance to make their case during a community workshop on the city's noise ordinance and live music downtown.

The meeting will be in a community workshop format and will be held 6 p.m. Wednesday at the SRQ TV Studio inside the City Hall Annex.

The city's downtown core sound ordinance regulates outdoor amplified sound (i.e. music) by banning it between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. and between 11:59 p.m. and 7 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday nights and nights before a federal holiday. 

And when the music plays, it has to be lower than 65 dBA, 70 dBC, and then it gets complicated when it deals with duration, proximity to residences and other measures.

2. Halloween is in full gear with all the events going on. Check out the Top Sarasota Halloween Events plus our calendar for more events as well. This coming weekend includes more of the Frightmares Haunted House, Fruitville Pumpkin Festival and .

3. Tuesday marks the second presidential debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. Foreign and domestic policy will be topic in a town hall meeting format. It's also at 9 p.m., and will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. Your moderator is Candy Crowley. You'll be able to chat and watch a live stream of the debate on Patch.

Are you organizing a public viewing party? Tell us in the comments.

4. Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister will attend a live screening of Inception at Riverview High School where he will provide live commentary of the movie. The screening will be at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, and it's free and open to the public. 

5. The City of Sarasota is poised to become the latest jurisdiction in Florida to establish a domestic partner registry, when it will be put to a vote tonight at City Hall.

The registry would grant couples, including same-sex couples, certain legal rights for health care decision making, education decisions and funeral/burial rights.