After a debate that focused on security and disability issues, Humboldt County’s Board of Supervisors approved changes to the county’s lighting ordinance in a 3-2 vote.At a July 27 special board meeting, changes to the coastal version of the ordinance were approved and staff was directed to apply the amendments to the inland version, which will go through Planning Commission review.Requested by the state’s Coastal Commission, the coastal version changes add a lighting restriction and apply it broadly.A limit of 2,700 kelvins – a measurement of light “temperature” or color – is applied to the coastal version with the change.The 2,700 kelvin range is considered as warm lighting on the yellow end of the spectrum as opposed to blue.Keep Reading
