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Council declares intent to pursue dark-sky certification and extends lighting nuisance into ETJ

Northlake Town Council · June 12, 2025
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Summary

The council approved a resolution stating the town's intent to seek dark-sky certification to enable enforceable outdoor-lighting rules and adopted an ordinance extending lighting nuisance limits 5,000 feet into the ETJ with numeric foot-candle thresholds for residential (0.25) and nonresidential (2.25) property lines.

On June 12 the Northlake Town Council approved a resolution expressing intent to pursue International Dark-Sky certification and adopted a companion ordinance extending outdoor-lighting nuisance regulations 5,000 feet into the extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Staff said the resolution is a required step under recent state law to allow municipalities to adopt and enforce outdoor-lighting standards…

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