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Staff recommends technical updates to beach lighting to better protect sea turtles
Summary
City planner told a public forum the city will update local marine-turtle lighting standards — including adopting longer-wavelength standards, spectrometric testing, and full-cutoff fixtures — and that staff will take the lighting ordinance to the Beach Stewardship Committee in August.
City planning staff told an informal community forum that the city's marine-turtle lighting standards need technical updates and that those updates will be brought to the Beach Stewardship Committee for review. Brandon Berry, a city planner, said the city's existing ordinance is 18 years old and is based on an older state model lighting ordinance; staff wants to add technical standards that reflect more recent research.
Berry said a recent study (published at the state level) indicates municipalities should aim for about 30%…
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