Lighting Ordinance Likely to be Rejected by Council
Comments on the ordinance are still outstanding and the ordinance cannot be held over until 2013, so it will likely either be withdrawn or voted down.
An ordinance that would bring changes to Chatham Borough's lighting code will likely be withdrawn or voted down when it appears for second reading at Monday's council meeting. "It's already gone through first reading," Mayor Bruce Harris said, but there are some outstanding comments regarding technical terms. Borough Engineer Vincent J. DeNave said he and the borough's professional planner, Susan Blickstein, discussed the ordinance in some detail after it passed the first reading. "She provided me with six comments to the ordinance, and some are pretty important. ... I don't think we hit the mark there," DeNave said. One example of Blickstein's comments is a clear distinction between residential and commercial lighting. After the comments …
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