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Staff previews draft lighting ordinance, including curfew and sign controls; council to discuss April 20

Vienna Citizen Sustainability Commission · March 26, 2026
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Town planning staff briefed the Citizen Sustainability Commission on consultant recommendations for a new private-property lighting code: maximum light levels, color-temperature limits, shielded fixtures and a proposed nighttime curfew for nonessential exterior lighting. Staff said draft text is not ready and enforcement will be constrained by state law and staffing limits.

Andrea West, the town principal planner, told the Citizen Sustainability Commission that the town's consultant, Clantonis & Associates, completed recommendations in January that would update lighting rules for private and public-property (non-right-of-way) fixtures. West said the recommendations include "maximum light levels and color temperatures for external lighting," requirements for shielded and aimed fixtures to minimize uplight, new sign-lighting standards and a proposed nighttime curfew for nonessential exterior lighting.

West emphasized that…

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