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Riverwoods trustees discuss dark-sky–style lighting limits and enforcement challenges
Summary
Trustees reviewed a staff memo and resident request proposing timers, motion sensors, holiday display windows, and brightness/shielding limits for residential outdoor lighting. Members asked about enforceability, lumen standards and forming a working group or using the sustainability committee to draft changes.
Village attorney Martin introduced a packet memo and a resident request urging changes to the residential outdoor lighting ordinance, framing options such as requiring timers for exterior or holiday lights, using motion sensors so lights are only on with movement, limiting holiday display periods (for example, Dec. 1–Jan. 31), and tightening shielding and brightness limits to better align with dark-sky principles.
Martin said the 2006 ordinance attempted to adopt dark-sky provisions (for example, downcast lighting and shielding so bulbs are not visible) but that enforcement and the variety of fixtures — driveways,…
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