Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: David Bygott (davidbygott![]() |
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 08:04:13 -0700 (PDT) |
We faced the same issue and spent about 10 years debating it, as Tucson is supposedly a ‘dark-sky’ area, but rattlesnakes are common too. Eventually the safety and visibility and legal concerns won out, and a proposal was approved and funded by the community, thanks to an energetic community member who worked out the details and made it happen. We chose a system of low-voltage (12V DC) path lights with metal fixtures, stems about 18” high and broad shades 8” wide to direct the light downwards and outwards rather than upward, LED bulbs for economy and durability, units spaced about 7-8 yards apart. We determined the spacing by experiment - putting some of the lamps on moveable stands and moving them around till we got it right. The connecting cables are buried only 6” deep and fed by a transformer fitted with a photocell for timing. We hired an electrician to put in some outdoor 110V AC receptacles to feed the transformers, and we were able to do the rest of the installation ourselves without specialized skills. The result was very satisfactory and we now have enough light to see where we are stepping at night. David Bygott Milagro Cohousing, Tucson AZ —————————————————————— > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 16:44:47 -0700 > From: "Dawn E. Slack" <dawneslack [at] gmail.com> > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > Subject: [C-L]_ How does your community handle outdoor lighting? > > Hi there! > > We live in a fairly rural area without street lights. We keep running into > conflicts around outdoor lighting. Some people are very sensitive to > lights and issues around light pollution. Others are sensitive to issues > of visibility and safety. I'm wondering how your community has handled > this if you've run into this particular disagreement. Do you have > guidelines written into your CC&Rs?
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Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? Alan O'Hashi, June 7 2019
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Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? KAREN A CARLSON, June 7 2019
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Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? KAREN A CARLSON, June 7 2019
- Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? David Bygott, June 7 2019
- Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? Sharon Villines, June 7 2019
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Re: How does your community handle outdoor lighting? Alan O'Hashi, June 7 2019
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