5:30 PM at 189 Main St., formerly Wisdom’s Heart. Enter under the big new Dead in the Water poster. Volunteers needed to string lights onto 76 trees; also needed electricians and bucket trucks. Snazzy T shirts available to first volunteers!
My View of Life on the Dock
5:30 PM at 189 Main St., formerly Wisdom’s Heart. Enter under the big new Dead in the Water poster. Volunteers needed to string lights onto 76 trees; also needed electricians and bucket trucks. Snazzy T shirts available to first volunteers!
While I agree that the lights will look pretty, has there been any thought about how they will affect the people who live on Main Street? My apartment is on the 3rd and 4th floor and I have several of the huge, 4-story trees in front of my unit and directly across the street. I’m concerned that they will be extremely bright for those of us trying to sleep. Will they be on all night? Will they be up “forever”? Just wondering if this was vetted with the residents, this is the first that I’ve heard of it and it’s difficult enough to sleep what with the noise from the bands and the bars and all of the bright lights down by the docks and on Commercial Street and Beauport. I also thought that the city was concerned with white light pollution and spent a few years working to install lower and softer lighting?
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Gloucester has an outdoor lighting statute, and this pretty clearly violates it. How has this gone forward with no public input? These may need to come down if we can’t work something out so that the statute is followed. Perhaps we can put the lights on timers.
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Totally unnecessary. Trees requires darkness to thrive. All these
lights are not enhancing the image of Gloucester but making it into a three ring circus. It is not going to bring
more people downtown shopping just more light pollution. Where was the public?
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