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Yamhill planning commission narrows lighting-ordinance compliance to six months, schedules public hearing
Summary
City planning staff will return a revised lighting ordinance for a public hearing next month after the commission agreed to require new streetlights meet the draft standard and to shorten the compliance window from one year to six months.
The City of Yamhill Planning Commission agreed to return the city’s draft lighting ordinance to public hearing next month and recommended shortening the compliance period for affected properties to six months rather than one year.
The commission’s discussion on Oct. — led by planning staff member Walt — focused on three items: aligning parking-lot light standards across the municipal code, clarifying illumination rules for signs in the Central Business District (CBD), and whether new streetlights should be required to meet the draft ordinance’s shielding and downcast requirements. Commissioners also discussed the compliance timeframe for existing nonconforming lights, including complaints about a gas station that remains illuminated 24 hours a day.
Walt, the staff member who prepared the review, recommended adopting the same quantitative parking-lot lighting standard now proposed…
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