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Harpers Ferry adopts Dark Sky Week proclamation and sends draft lighting ordinance to ORC for review
Summary
Council approved a Dark Sky Week proclamation and debated clarifying revisions to a draft lighting ordinance (lumens metric, shielding, permitting language and code enforcement title change); the committee kept the current permitting flow and recommended formal review by the Ordinance Review Committee.
The Harpers Ferry Town Council voted April 13 to adopt a Dark Sky Week proclamation and received clarifying remarks from the town's dark-sky advocates and the draft ordinance committee.
The local chapter outlined Dark Sky International's five principles (useful lighting, targeted, downward-shielded, low color temperature and controlled operation) and noted the chapter would offer free home and…
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