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A much needed, and long overdue, article. However, if you want to single out some offensive lights, meaning that they spill excessive light into the night sky, there are far worse offenders than the corner "pole lights" downtown. Among these would be the decorative "gas lamps" the city has installed all along the downtown corridor. Implemented correctly, with right fixture, these could have been wonderful. One small change in design, wherein the glare producing lamps were recessed into the hood, and not visible, would have made these night sky friendly. As they are, with exposed lamps and apparently either mercury vapor of metal halide, they spill broad spectrum light and glare and are extremely environmentally unfriendly. Other offenders are the hundreds of "drop lens cobra" street lights employed all over the residential and business districts of the City of Tehachapi. These are still being allowed, and installed, in new housing tracts. This is an archaic design that...
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