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Committee discusses pollinator-friendly lighting language for next Town Plan
Summary
Members discussed a Conservation Commission suggestion to adopt pollinator-friendly lighting guidelines and considered adding language to the next Town Plan to ensure new or replacement town lighting follows those standards.
Ryan reported that Troi Perkins of the Conservation Commission suggested the town consider lighting guidelines that would be pollinator-friendly. Committee member Cat Buxton proposed a forward-looking approach so that, when the town installs or repairs lighting, replacements would meet pollinator-friendly standards.
Members discussed adding language to the Town Plan; one proposed phrasing discussed at the meeting was, without attribution, "if the Town installs new lighting, it should be installed with pollinator friendly standards." No formal language was adopted at the meeting and no ordinance change was proposed; the item remains a planning suggestion to be reflected in the next Town Plan iteration if the committee and other boards approve it.
