CITY COUNCIL BACKS LIGHT-POLLUTION LAW.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE- The City Council voted Tuesday to regulate so-called light-pollution in residential neighborhoods. The council voted 3-2 in support of drafting an ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been - with Councilmen Dave Weaver and Gus Gomez dissenting dis·sent intr.v. dis·sent·ed, dis·sent·ing, dis·sents 1. To differ in opinion or feeling; disagree. 2. To withhold assent or approval. n. 1. - that would limit the wattage wattage the output or consumption of an electric device expressed in watts. of light bulbs on residential properties and require residents to shield light sources. Councilman Bob Yousefian said an ordinance would help enforce those cases when light is spilling onto a neighbor's property and becoming a nuisance nuisance, in law, an act that, without legal justification, interferes with safety, comfort, or the use of property. A private nuisance (e.g., erecting a wall that shuts off a neighbor's light) is one that affects one or a few persons, while a public nuisance (e.g. . ``You're not going to solve two neighbors feuding with a law, but you will have some kind of tool in your hand to say this is the city's standard,'' Yousefian said. The city's neighborhood services department averages between five and 12 light-related complaints per year. Weaver and Gomez felt that the handful of complaints about excessive light did not justify adding another law to the books. ``If you have that rare case that someone doesn't like the lights of their neighbors, we have a mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, process rather than adding another law on the books,'' Weaver said. ``This is an unnecessary ordinance at this time.'' Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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