Athens-Clarke County business and property owners may have to turn down their security lights if a comprehensive light ordinance proposed by commissioners at the agenda-setting meeting on Thursday evening is approved.
“It makes me sick to my stomach when I see those bright lights burning when they’re not lighting anything up,” Commissioner Alice Kinman said.
Though some of the commissioners said they were unsatisfied with the proposed light ordinance, others said it is important to pass the ordinance quickly since they have been trying to vote on a light ordinance since 2003.
Commissioners will continue to debate the ordinance at the voting session meeting scheduled for April 7 at City Hall in downtown Athens.
Proposals to expand public transit to people living on the outskirts of Athens through the Link transit service and to build a downtown parking deck that will involve a partnership with a private firm to create a retail streetscape were put on the consent agenda for the April 7 voting meeting.
Items on the consent agenda are approved as a block without individual discussion.
Commissioners also recommended using funds from the Community Development Block Grant to fund several homelessness-related groups in Athens. A public hearing is tentatively scheduled for April 7 to discuss funding in more detail.
For more information on this meeting and others visit the Athens-Clarke County Government webpage.
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Public transportation to the outskirts is probably a good idea. Another parking deck downtown?
ReplyDeleteSecurity lights deter crime. Would dimmer lights be solving a comparable problem? The local government may want to consult with one of the professors in the highly regarded school of public administration at UGA to better define the problem(s) and possible solutions before enacting bad policy.
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