Local News in Brief : Costa Mesa : Settlement Reported Near on Amphitheater
Settlement talks in the four-year legal battle over noise at Pacific Amphitheatre moved closer to a possible conclusion Monday.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard J. Beacom accepted two sound experts proposed by the state and Ned West Inc., operators of the amphitheater under a 40-year lease on the state-owned Orange County Fairgrounds.
The experts were ordered to return to court on June 13 with results of further sound studies at the 18,500-capacity, open-air concert bowl. They also will recommend acceptable noise levels and suggest remedies to the occasional clamor that led a neighborhood anti-noise group to sue the amphitheater operators and the city in January, 1984.
Today, the groups will discuss how to enforce any noise-level violations.
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