Electronic dance shows must go on, just not at the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore, a San Bernardino County supervisor said Monday.

“We gave it a shot. It’s time for these events not to be at this county facility anymore,” Supervisor Janice Rutherford said, referring to the controversial Nocturnal Wonderland and Beyond Wonderland events, held annually since 2013 at the nation’s largest outdoor music venue.

While extremely popular with youth culture and profitable to the cities or counties in which they are held, the rave-style music events, historically, have been a nuisance to people who reside near the venues.

After ongoing complaints from residents and business owners about noise, rampant drug use, loitering and other public safety concerns when the events were held at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino, the dance shows moved to Devore in 2013.

Then it started all over again. Dozens, if not hundreds, of residents from Devore to the mountain community of Crestline have complained to county supervisors about noise, drug use, heavy traffic and scantily clad, loitering concertgoers since the dance shows began in 2013.

“A friend of mine was approached on her property by rave-goers asking to use her restroom,” said Karan Slobom, a Devore resident of 44 years, on Monday. “They’re all over the place. And you would not believe how they dress. It’s indecent exposure.”

At last September’s Nocturnal Wonderland event, attendance hit nearly 85,000 and saw 32 people hospitalized and 300 arrested, more than a third for drug-related offenses, authorities said.

The events have proved deadly as well.

During last year’s Beyond Wonderland event, John Hoang Dinh Vo, 22, of San Diego died from an ecstasy overdose at Loma Linda University Medical Center after suffering a seizure at the venue. A red pill found in Vo’s possession, shaped like a shield with the letters “UPS” imprinted on it, tested positive for ecstasy. A friend of Vo’s told investigators he observed Vo take ecstasy and drink at least one beer at the festival, according to a coroner’s investigation report.

During a telephone conversation Monday, Victor Trevino, vice president of communications for concert promoter LiveNation, requested questions be sent via email. Those questions were not immediately answered.

During an April 5 Board of Supervisors meeting, several Devore residents again voiced their concerns about the noise and the heavy traffic, blaming the March 19 death of a bicyclist at the northbound 15 Freeway onramp on heavy traffic generated by the Beyond Wonderland event occurring at the time.

According to the California Highway Patrol, 20-year-old Jimmy Fraley was riding his bicycle west on Devore Road, approaching the northbound 15 Freeway onramp, when Pedro Ramirez, 51, of Adelanto made a left turn onto the freeway onramp from eastbound Devore Road in his pickup, directly in front of Fraley. Fraley struck the pickup and was ejected from his bicycle. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Supervisor Josie Gonzales noted during the April 5 meeting that Ramirez was not an attendee at Beyond Wonderland.

Still, given the continual and numerous complaints from area residents and the ongoing issues of drug use, deaths and arrests at the events, Rutherford decided it was time to take drastic action. She referred to a clause in the county’s contract with Live Nation that said should the venue become a safety hazard or be subject to complaints from the neighboring community, Live Nation would agree to no longer hold the events at the amphitheater.

“I’d like to know from county counsel what procedure we need to put in place to activate this contract provision and prevent these events from happening at (San Manuel Amphitheater) anymore,” Rutherford said during the April 5 meeting, addressing County Counsel Jean-Rene Basle. “The impacts on the community have become absolutely intolerable. If you compare the number of attendees and arrests, hospitalization and deaths, this is off the charts.”

Basle said he would coordinate with county CEO Greg Devereaux and the county parks department to investigate the residents’ claims, then decide what action to take.

County spokesman David Wert said Monday that no recommendation has gone to the Board of Supervisors since the April 5 meeting.

Slobom, one of the residents who attended the April 5 meeting to voice her concerns, said at least four or five Devore residents, possibly more, plan to attend Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting as well as to continue pressing the issue.