[Chaos-l] Chatham County Lighting Ordinance -- NOT

[Ray Porter]

Hi everyone,
I just returned from a county commissioner's meeting where the latest,
proposed addition to the Governor's Club/Governor's Village complex of
subdivisions was being discussed (49 new single family homes and 70 some odd
townhomes on Old Farrington and Mt Carmel Church Roads -- Governor's Lake).
I was surprised to find out at this meeting that the county lighting
ordinance that so many of us thought had been approved and implemented by
the county a year or two ago was actually never enacted as an ordinance.
Apparently our county commissioners keep postponing actually adopting the
ordinance and have put it out as simply a guideline that developers are free
to ignore.  The GC folks mentioned in their presentation that they would
shield the lighting in the new development but when I questioned their
engineer during the break, he specifically said they could not promise to
abide by the provisions of the county lighting "guidelines".  They want to
keep the lighting architecturally consistent with the other GC developments.

Did I miss something?  Was everyone else aware that the Chatham lighting
ordinance was actually never accepted?  Is there anything we can do to get
the process going again and get the proposed ordinance actually implemented?

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Ray Porter
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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