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Council schedules hearing on exterior lighting ordinance after planning revisions; debate centers on complaint scope and compliance period

Yamhill City Council · December 11, 2025
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Summary

The planning commission forwarded an exterior lighting ordinance to the council for a hearing next month. Councilors debated whether complaints should be limited to adjacent/affected properties or be open to anyone, and whether fixtures must conform within six months or a longer period.

The Yamhill City Council will hold a hearing next month on an exterior lighting ordinance after the planning commission forwarded a revised draft, staff told the council Dec. 10.

Speaker 8 said planning had held hearings and will bring the lighting ordinance to council; a separate variance hearing was continued to Dec. 15. The council discussed several substantive questions ahead of the hearing: whether the city—s own fixtures and municipal…

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