I can see the Milky Way on moonless nights from my property on Daly Ave in Old Town. This is nice and I support the Dark Sky initiative! However, I have to climb the hill to get above the orange hue of the sodium vapor streetlights which intrude on the native beauty. I believe the offending light is owned by Rocky Mountain Power and leased by the City. It has no shielding to direct the light downward and limit it to the street. In fact, the light is designed to spread illumination 360 degrees horizontally. The local neighborhood comprised is year round residents and would support adopting the light, even to the point of paying to have the light replaced with something similar to the downlighting Park Meadows has enjoyed for decades.

Cobra-head street lights exist on the power poles on Daly Ave. They are extremely bright. According to the Staff Report, we'll have to wait up to 5 years for these lights to be replaced and to be in compliance with Dark Sky. Please help to encourage Rocky Mountain Power and the Park City Engineering Office to change these power pole lights much sooner, this year.
Sherie Harding

We are very supportive of the proposal and have the following observations:
• Many residents are not here full time, yet their lights burn all year round. So much energy could be saved in our community by reasonable attention here by property managers, HOA’s, etc.
• The holiday lighting proliferation can have a reasonable place and neighbor-friendly scale. Our neighbor wires five trees on a very small lot that blows the neighbors away with the intensity. You can read a newspaper from the street and wildlife must be bewildered by this growing phenomenon as people move here from large cities.
• Unnecessary decorative lighting on homes seems to be increasing with fixtures washing exterior walls etc. on many homes. Can we limit this through property caps on exterior lumens that multiply fixtures x output, regardless of whether the fixtures comply with code?
• Code enforcement will be important ensure.
• While compliance by 2024 is better than nothing, we fear that time is of the essence and any shortening of this deadline would have a bigger impact that is sorely needed. The recent Netflix documentary by Sir David Attenborough emphasizes the urgency of this emergency.
Work and commitment by our community may require some sacrifices and adjustments to our normal way of thinking but if we can make these inconvenient choices, we will be rewarded with big dividends:
• These choices make a statement about the kind of community that we are and provides a leadership example for others to follow. More people will want to live in this kind of a community than not.
• These choices align our community priorities with our vision to be carbon neutral by 2030. Carbon neutrality will go a long way to protecting our local economy that is threatened by climate change.
• These choices support some of the reasons that we live in Park City by protecting dark skies, wildlife, conservation, and being good neighbors.
Best wishes on your efforts here!
David and Sarah Peters