City of Bandon---Outdoor Lighting Ordinance Measure 6-148---Updated 3/28/2013

03/28/2013

Great News,
The voters of Bandon have seen the Light and defeated the Dark Skies Initiative….. Measure 6-148 lost
the vote. 55% voted NO to the Dark and 45% voted Yes.
Here is the link:
http://www.co.coos.or.us/
Rob T.

News Links:

The voters have spoken, Letter to Editor---Western World
Let there be light, say Bandon voters---Minute Press
Voters shoot down Bandon lighting ordinance---KCBY
Bandon votes against 'dark sky' laws---Mail Tribune
Bandon votes against light pollution regulations---Associated Press
Bandon voters: Keep the lights on---City manager says he's disappointed---Western World
Bandon light ordinance ballots due today----KCBY News

Quote from As I See It by Mary Schamehorn

If you haven't yet turned in your ballot on Bandon's Measure 6-148, I am urging you to vote yes and get your ballot into
City Hall before 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

For the life of me I am not sure why anyone would vote against this, or why the Committee to Keep the Lights on in
Bandon and CoosCountyWatchdog.com would spend the money to walk through Bandon neighborhoods and hang information on door knobs urging a no vote on the measure.

It seems to be more of a property rights issue than anything else, and that's sad. They also speak of "protecting your final authority," "preserving human activity" and "preserving our quality of life."

Frankly, I think the quality of everyone's life would be better if we didn't have the neighbor's or the City's lights shining into our
backyards and bedroom windows.

Please vote yes for Measure 6-148 while there is still time to get your ballot in.

55% of the people disagreed.....

From a Watchdog in Bandon

Hey Folks,
The fight for Light is getting heated in Bandon. Please DO NOT forget to Vote NO on Measure 6-148 in the March 12, 2013 Election. The supporters of this law are getting desperate, which is demonstrated in their letters to the editor. Below is a link to the Bandon Western World and my fellow watchdogs should be really upset, because they want to leash us, as if they could. In addition, one writer claims that we all imagined the Bandon Marsh expansion planned by the USFWS. Yeah, the people of Coos County just went through a "Dallas" style Dream Sequence.....Rob T.

Leash The Watchdog---Not bloody likely!..........

March 12, 2013,
Election -
MEASURE 6-148

REFERENDUM ON ORDINANCE 1594 - OUTDOOR LIGHTING REGULATIONS

Registered Bandon voters will soon be receiving mail-in ballots for the March 12, 2013, election. Measure 6-148 has been placed on the ballot as a referendum of Ordinance 1594 for Bandon voters to decide whether the Municipal Code should be
amended to include outdoor lighting regulations. A copy of Measure 6-148 and a copy of Ordinance 1594 can be found by clicking the links above.

Hey Folks,
The City of Bandon has a link to their new Lighting Ordinance, but the new version of the full text is missing the cover letter mentioning Dave Ledig and the USFWS. Below are the original files with the original text that is missing on the current document. What does the city have to hide?.....Why would they be ashamed of their connection with the USFWS?.......

Please, read the law for yourself and decide if you want the city of Bandon in charge of what kind of lighting you can put on your own house, and your property. Please, Vote no on the Measure 6-148 and Keep the Lights on in Bandon.....Rob T.

In the file below, there is a letter from The USFWS to the Bandon Planning Commission. It talks of how The Service is working in coordination with the Bandon Planning Department. It also demonstrates that not only does The Service want to control the lighting of private citizens, but they also want the city to adopt their entire Comprehensive Conservation Plan as the city’s Comprehensive Plan. It was originally title Bandon’s “Master Plan”.

USFWS Letter to Bandon Planning Dept. 3-22-2012
File Size:	502 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

Help Wanted: ---Volunteers needed to defeat The Bandon Lighting Ordinance

The Jim Bice Show
w/Rob Taylor in Segment 1

The Mark McKelvey Show
w/Rob Taylor in Segment 2

Dark Skies Propaganda Video

Below is a file of the copy of the Bandon Lighting Ordinance with Dave Ledig of the USFWS
mentioned in the cover letter.

City of Bandon Ordinance 1594-Outdoor Lighting Regulations 6-4-12
File Size:	288 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

Below is a file of the Bandon Lighting Ordinance with Dave Ledig's name missing from the cover letter.

City of Bandon Ordinance 1594-Outdoor Lighting Regulations 8-6-12
File Size:	276 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

Comments

Al Geiser

02/08/2013 05:27

This is a quality of life issue, you can have all the light you want in "your" yard, but when it trespasses into your neighbors bedroom window that is one of the problems. If light made you "safe", downtown LA in the middle of the night would be the safest place on the planet. The dusk to dawn "yard" light only means the thug doesn't have to carry a flashlight. Motion sensors alert you and your neighbors that something is moving around. Most of this ordinance is about putting the light down to the task at ground level, preventing glare for drivers, and preventing sky glow over Bandon. Go look at the lights in the parking lot at Ray's... those are cutoff style fixtures that put the light down to the task and do not light the underside of aircraft landing at night. There are more than ten cities in Oregon (Sisters was the first) and one county that have Dark Sky ordinances... beyond that there are states and countries that have the same. Yard lights where developed 60 years ago and a hand full of people had them... now they are ubiquitous to the point you can no longer see the Milky Way in your backyard. International Dark-Sky Association http://www.darksky.org/ is the best educational source on this subject for adults and children.

Rob Taylor link

03/09/2013 00:34

Hey Al,

Stopping this law will protect our way of life, with light. You are the typical socialist more concerned about worshiping government as your God and Nature as your savior.

Humans have a right to the element of light and the Right to the freedom of expression and nobody can deny another individual of those rights.

You should tell people of your connection with the Audubon Society before you act as if you are just another average concerned citizen completely unconnected to the whacko environmentalist that you represent. http://www.kalmiopsisaudubon.org/darksky

Al, you are a little man who chooses to be a brute by using the force of government to impose your will on your neighbors. Instead of using pubic cooperation, personal communication, and subtle education to achieve your desires, you choose to be a tyrant. Well, I do not think my fellow Bandonians will allow you to BULLY us with your restrictions. I have faith in the people of Bandon to defeat this Ordinance at the Ballot box, thus thwarting another Napoleon of Nature to win the day…..

Don Thomson link

02/21/2013 12:32

Rob,each state has different recall laws. 16 states have no laws at all. Washington say it is a voters right to recall. The catch is raising the funds to do it. We are limited in the amount each donor can give ( $ 900.00 ) . Any ideas you may have for fund raiseing. Let me know please. Thanks Don

Rob Taylor link

02/21/2013 13:02

Hey Don,

I'm not familiar with the recall laws in Washington. Why do you need to raise money? In Oregon, all a person needs to do to get a recall on the ballot is to gather petition signatures. It is usually about 10% of the voting population. I usually raise money at our meetings by passing around the plate, but we have never needed more than a couple hundred dollars.

You have to find your base supporters and utilize what can be pulled together. Like running a Campaign. Go to meetings of the groups who might be supportive of your ideas, place adds in the local papers. You will need to set up a PAC, but that can be done through the secretary of state's office. Also, I have only done initiatives and referendums, recalls are not something I am familiar with.