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Dark sky ordinances save energy
Editor:
This past week you ran an AP story of dark sky ordinances. One proposed ordinance has floated around Berkeley for the last two years.
On April 17 the Parks and Recreation Commission requested that the City Council draft and adopt an appropriate “night time outdoor lighting” ordinance.
The purposes are two fold, one to save electricity by having light illuminate the ground and not the sky, and secondly, to preserve the recreation of amateur astronomy.
Yolanda Huang
member, Parks & Recreation Commission