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Residents urge town to track cabin DBAs and adopt light rules to protect night skies
Summary
A resident asked the board to require businesses to list DBAs and individual cabin names on licenses after booking confusion; separate public comments urged the town to add a light ordinance or dark‑sky provisions to protect stargazing tourism and residential privacy.
A resident who rents a cabin in town asked the Audible Town Board to require businesses to submit both their primary business name and any DBAs so the town can keep a master list of names and reduce booking confusion.
"I just wanted to propose, that the city requires businesses to submit both their business name and any DBA names that they're gonna be using," Amy said during public comment, explaining she discovered another cabin using the same name and that duplicated names can cause guests to book the wrong property. Board members and other local operators said the issue is complicated because many cabins are marketed under a single resort company and individual unit names may be used only for advertising rather than registered as separate DBAs.
During the same public‑comment period residents also raised concerns about bright exterior security lights. An anonymous written complaint read to the board said, "The lights are excessively bright on all night and point directly at my house." Another resident asked the board to reconsider earlier plans to bypass a more stringent dark‑sky ordinance and urged a narrower, more targeted light‑regulation entry in the new ordinance book to protect both residential privacy and the town's star‑viewing tourism appeal.
Town staff told the board they currently record parent company names on business licenses and do not track every individual cabin name. Members agreed staff will review the request and consider including DBAs on license forms, while noting that requiring DBAs would not automatically prevent marketing names that are never registered with the state. The board signaled interest in discussing light regulations while the ordinance book is under review.
