Over the shouts of marchers from Occupy Wall Street, seven floors below on Chambers Street, members of Community Board 1’s Financial District Committee met with representatives of the protest Wednesday in an effort to bring nighttime peace to residents and better access to homes in a neighborhood lined with barricades.

“Whatever your political views are, it doesn’t matter, because once again our neighborhood has been taken from us,” said Committeee Chair Ro Sheffe.  “We have a right to peaceful enjoyment of our homes, which we are being denied.”

Though little was resolved at the meeting following board members’ complaints of noise, barricades and the concentration of police resources away from where they say they are needed, the meeting signaled a change in stance for the committee. Last month, the committee had passed a resolution calling on city officials and Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, where the protesters are encamped, to end the “intolerable intrusion” on the area.

With the demonstrations growing stronger and apparently without end, the full community board tabled the resolution and the two sides are now talking to each other.

“The best way to solve this problem is for all of us to work together,” said Sheffe.

“We are reasonable people,” Justin Wedes, a representative of Occupy Wall Street, told the committee.

Wedes called the meetings with CB1 “an opportunity for learning.”

“There was this perception that it’s a rich neighborhood, all hedge fund managers and bankers,” he said.

Earlier in the week at a “general assembly,” the daily decision-making gathering of the entire group, Occupy Wall Street agreed to roll back the start of weekday “quiet hours” from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. Fliers with community rules are now distributed daily to newcomers. And Thursday night, in response to CB1, the protesters raised their hands in support of a “good neighbor” policy. The board members had called for limiting nighttime noise in the park encampment, sticking to designated protest routes, and agreeing not to march on Yom Kippur, Saturday, Oct. 8.

The city has banned the use of bullhorns at the meetings, so word is passed to the hundreds at the gatherings through what demonstrators call a “people’s microphone.” This involves dozens of protesters shouting back to those behind them, and so on, creating what is generally believed to be noisier, longer meetings than if people spoke through bullhorns. Wedes asked the community board members with help in lobbying the city to allow them to use the amplification.

Sheffe said he would favor the “judicious” use of a bullhorn.

Protesters interviewed in Zuccotti Park had mixed reactions to the community complaints. Some said they were sympathetic while others seemed puzzled.

“It’s probably annoying if you live right here, but at the same time this is a public space and we are addressing public issues and we have the right to assemble,” said 36-year-old Pete Dutro from Brooklyn.

Elspeth MacDonald, 71, also from Brooklyn, had a different take. “Why would people want them to leave?” she said. “I would be so proud to not have to take a subway to this event.”

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At a Community Board 1 committee meeting Oct. 5, Occupy Wall Street's Justin Wedes, left, and Financial District Committee Chair Ro Scheffe discuss how to lessen the impact of the demonstrations on the community.