SISTER BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Door County Yacht club is suing Sister Bay over what it calls, excessive noise.
It’s all part of a summer concert series in the village.
The yacht club says it tried to talk to the village about the noise, and said the lawsuit was its last option.
Waterfront Park in Sister Bay is full of people enjoying the beach during the day, and at night, the music.
Christopher Milligan is the director of the concert series.
“We have several hundred people, five, six hundred people for a concert”
The park has hosted summer concerts for the past 27 years. They run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
“It started off with five or six concerts and it grew over the years”
Stan Slabas is the President of the Yacht Club at Sister Bay.
“They’ve had concerts in the park long before they put up the band shell. We just want some reasonable limits on sound and times.”
Slabas, says it’s not just the Wednesday night concerts property owners have issues with, but rather the fact the band shell, which was built two years ago, was built facing the condos making the music sound louder.
“We had suggested that they put it on this end of the park and face it away from us before it was built and that suggestion went nowhere”
Village Administer Zeke Jackson
“We welcome a dialogue with them, like I said we want to be good neighbors”
Jackson added the village takes into account every complaint it receives about the concerts.
“The issue that we take with it is, what really constitutes as too loud to one person maybe very different than what is too loud to someone else”
Slabas says filing the lawsuit was a last resort, he hopes to reach an agreement with the village before the suit moves forward in court.
