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Fort Collins updates night-sky program, eyes longer-term monitoring and public outreach
Summary
City staff summarized a decade of work on outdoor-lighting best practices, code changes that set lighting budgets by zone, volunteer monitoring and a seven-site instrument network; council asked for clearer dates and timetables for code changes, and encouraged expanded public education and reporting tools.
Ginny Sawyer, senior policy and project manager for the City of Fort Collins, told the City Council that the city's night-sky efforts began with the Nature in the City plan and have been carried out across departments "with economic, social, and environmental benefits." Sawyer said staff updated the lighting code to a system that assigns parcels a lighting budget by zone and that these changes are forward-looking rather than retroactive.
The presentation included technical and community…
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