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

[Robert Nielsen]

Ray Porter,

Actually, I knew about this.   I work with a gentleman named David LeGrys 
who was one of the main proponents of the lighting ordinance in Chatham 
County (he also ran for a political office, but lost).  He told me exactly 
what you had said ... that they didn't vote no ... but haven't really done 
anything either.  Recently, he told me that the last election in Chatham 
Country brought in quite a few more people that were supportive of the 
lighting ordinance ... perhaps it is time to push to have it approved, 
rather than just guidelines?

Robert Nielsen

At 1/19/2005  07:26 AM, you wrote:
>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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