A group of citizens seeking changes in the lights at Fountain Park were back before the Town Council March 17, this time with a petition signed by approximately 200 people agreeing with the need for …
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Group hands council petition on lights
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A group of citizens seeking changes in the lights at Fountain Park were back before the Town Council March 17, this time with a petition signed by approximately 200 people agreeing with the need for a change to the lights.
Robert Rican, who identified himself as an electrical engineer living near the park, said he participated with Donna Brinkmeyer and Ted Blank in surveying people using the park after dark. They spent about seven hours in the park after 7 p.m. over five days.
People walking in the park were asked their preference between the existing lights and ones simulated with a hood directing the light straight downward.
Rican said the result was 96 percent in favor of those with the hood over the lights.
The petition calls on the mayor and Town Council to demand the companies hired to design and install the bollard pathway lights be held responsible for replacing them with “full cutoff” fixtures that direct the light downward.
Complete story in the March 23 edition of The Times.
