Based on previous meetings with City staff, we prepared a 40-page report recommending changes to the City’s Outdoor Lighting Ordinance and presented it to the City at the beginning of March.
Rob Roush, developer of the proposed Red Desert subdivision in Ivins, has been working with us to create his subdivision’s CC&Rs that meet our vision and significantly exceed what the City’s Outdoor Lighting Ordinance currently requires. We were delighted to review his filed CC&Rs on March 5th.
On March 7th, the City Council sent our report to the City’s Technical Review Committee for its recommendations before sending it to the Planning Commission for a public hearing and recommendation.
During March, our Technical Committee analyzed most of the City-owned outdoor lighting and a sampling of commercial outdoor lighting to help determine appropriate recommendations for changes to the City’s Outdoor Lighting Ordinance. Our Technical Committee will continue to analyze issues the City needs more information on.
The Events Committee met three times in March to plan two April events: (1) A presentation at Red Mountain Resort on April 24th, and (2) an information table and street art sponsorship at the Kayenta Street Painting Festival on April 27th and 28th.
In addition to our four-person board of Directors and four technical advisors, the Initiative now has 21 volunteers working on our Events and Technical committees. That sounds like a lot and it is… but we need as much help as we can get. So, let us know if you can share some of your time and expertise.
On March 21st, the Mayor and City Council took time to formally recognize and congratulate the student artists who won the competition we sponsored, for their paintings interpreting the night sky over Ivins. The five winning paintings were on display at City Hall for most of March.
On March 26th we received 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS.
On March 30th we conducted our second Sky Quality Survey.