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Council, planning staff and residents debate lighting, shielding and ‘light trespass’ at new developments
Summary
Council and staff discussed complaints about parking-lot and canopy lighting at recent developments and a gas station, explored measurement and enforcement limits under current code, and agreed to measure pole heights and examine options to bring lighting into compliance with town ordinances.
Virgin planning staff and council members spent substantial time May 20 discussing night-sky rules, “fully shielded” lighting definitions and neighbor complaints about light spilling from a new development’s parking-lot fixtures and an adjacent gas station canopy.
Charlotte, the town’s community development staff member, summarized the technical issues: fully shielded fixtures must not let light break the horizontal plane and should not cast light above the shield. She told council that modern LEDs are smaller and can meet the horizontal-plane test while still producing light that appears to trespass into nearby yards, which complicates visual…
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