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Residents tell council municipal court and nuisance-lighting complaints left unresolved
Summary
Two West Warwick residents used public comment to describe a long-running dispute with neighbors over outdoor lighting and municipal housing-enforcement actions. They said municipal-court proceedings and town responses left them dissatisfied; town staff advised legal appeal avenues but warned the council could not overturn court actions.
Two West Warwick residents, Guillermo Lugo and Shalena Smith of 24 Meadow Street, addressed the council during public comment to describe a protracted dispute with neighbors over high-lumen outdoor lighting and to say they felt town enforcement and municipal-court procedures had not resolved the problem.
Lugo and Smith said the issue has lasted more than a year and that they had sought help from the building official and the town27s minimum-housing office. They described glare from commercial-style spotlights that they say shine into their home, and they said the municipal-court process — including…
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