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Provo City Council approves dark-sky lighting code
The Provo City Council approved an update Tuesday to the city's outdoor lighting code to make the city more dark sky compliant. All new and replaced outdoor fixtures will be required to have a color temperature of 3,000 Kelvin or less and be fully shielded, according to city documents. Electronic billboards may not exceed a maximum illumination of 300 nits during nighttime hours and 5,000 nits during daylight hours, the city added. These new policies cannot be enforced retroactively on existing outdoor lighting fixtures, according to council intern Britton Johnson, who presented ...
