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Council approves revision to exterior lighting code, sets 11 p.m.–6 a.m. curfew and 1,000-lumen cap
Summary
Toquerville City Council on Feb. 19 approved Ordinance 2025 amending the city’s exterior lighting standards to add a curfew from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and to adopt a 1,000-lumens-per-fixture limit for low-output fixtures.
Toquerville City Council on Feb. 19 approved Ordinance 2025 amending and restating Title 10, Chapter 24, Section 4 of the city code to update exterior lighting standards, including a curfew between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. and a maximum of 1,000 lumens per fixture where the ordinance references low-output fixtures.
City staff said the revisions were drafted at the request of code enforcement and the city prosecutor to close an enforcement loophole in the existing curfew. Ben, a city staff member who presented the ordinance, told the council the draft added a start-time curfew (6 a.m.) in addition to the existing 11 p.m. end time and clarified…
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