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Planning commission backs text amendment to streamline string-lighting rules, sets midnight dimming
Summary
The Jackson Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of a text amendment to LDR section 5.3.1.c.3 to allow more streamlined use of string lighting while keeping aggregate lumen limits; commissioners adjusted the residential exempted period to match the county and set a midnight dimming/cutoff time for residential areas.
The Jackson Planning Commission on March 18 recommended approval of a text amendment to the town's land-development regulations governing string lights, adopting changes intended to allow expanded use in core commercial areas while keeping annual aggregate illumination at or below current levels.
Planning staff told commissioners the amendment (P25-1-39) was intended to "streamline" the code for string lights and would be enforced primarily through voluntary compliance. "Enforcement of this code will be difficult," Planning staff Andrew Bowen said, adding that the proposal counts string lights toward total site light-output limits and proposes a maximum of "0.46 lumens per square foot" in one of the draft provisions.
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