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Residents debate dark‑sky lighting, RV parks and home‑enterprise limits during Mariposa planning workshop
Summary
Public commenters pressed concerns over vacation‑rental lighting and a homeowner's large seasonal Christmas light; commissioners and staff clarified proposed vacation‑rental lighting exemptions for holiday lighting, discussed RV‑park siting and hookup requirements, and agreed to remove arbitrary acreage limits for home enterprises from draft code.
Public commenters and commissioners raised a series of non‑project concerns during the Jan. 10 Planning Commission workshop as staff reviewed the development code draft.
A prominent public comment came from resident Richard Walker, who described a high‑output "Santa tracker" lighting installation and urged that any holiday‑lighting exemption be drafted narrowly so that individual residents are not financially burdened by retrofits. Walker said his display is turned off by 10 p.m. and that national BirdCast guidance recommends lights off by 11…
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