CITY TO EYE REGULATING HOMES' 'LIGHT POLLUTION'.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE Glendale. 1 City (1990 pop. 148,134), Maricopa co., S central Ariz., adjacent to Phoenix; inc. 1910. It is located in a rich agricultural region irrigated by the Salt River project. Glendale has become one of the fastest-growing U.S. - The City Council tonight will consider whether it should regulate so-called light pollution in residential neighborhoods. Unlike other cities', Glendale's city codes do not address the issue of light spilling over into a neighbor's yard, but the council will consider the issue after a handful of complaints from residents. ``Essentially, some people complain that the light spills onto their properties and disturbs their peace,'' said Jess jesse, jess a leather strap placed around each shank of a hawk used for hunting, for the attachment of a leash. Duran, assistant director of community development and housing. ``We need to know if the council is interested in addressing the issue or not.'' The council will consider several options, including limiting the wattage wattage the output or consumption of an electric device expressed in watts. of light bulbs and shielding light sources. If the council does approve adopting light regulations, the city would have to buy a $600 professional light meter for its code enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to workers. Councilman Bob Yousefian said he is wary about regulating light pollution since only a few people have complained. ``At what point does government react, based on the mere fact that only a couple people are complaining about this?'' Yousefian said. ``Next thing you know, people will ask us to make 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 because someone living next to them has wind chimes wind chimes pl.n. An arrangement of small suspended pieces, as of glass, metal, or ceramic, hung loosely together so that they tinkle pleasingly when blown by the wind. Also called wind-bells. and they make noise. We will become another Soviet Union. It's ridiculous.'' Yousefian, who took an informal poll of his neighbors, said the problem seems to be one of feuding neighbors - an issue that is not city government's role to resolve. ``Nine out of 10 times, they said that if they had an issue with a neighbor with a big light in their garage shining into their bedroom, they talked to the neighbor and they either put a timer timer, n radiographic timing device that functions as an automatic exposure timer and a switch to control the current to the high-tension transformer and filament transformer. The face of the timer is calibrated in seconds and fractions of seconds. on it or changed the light,'' Yousefian said. ``Problems like this exist, but generally people are more sensitive about it when they talk to their neighbor.'' Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO --The Glendale City Council will meet at 6 tonight at City Hall, 613 E. Broadway, second floor. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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