(-14-) From: LABBEY@gitvm1.gatech.edu
Subject: Light Pollution Victory!
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:11:25 EST
ONE-MAN LIGHT POLLUTION VICTORY
Atlanta Astronomy Club - a great example!
Congratulations to Tom Buchanan!
Tom Buchanan, chairman of our Light Pollution Committee, has accomplished an
unprecedented feat. He has written, and shepherded through to its final
enactment an ordinance prohibiting the construction of billboards with lights
pointed up toward the sky. Atlanta City Ordnance Z-94-39 was signed into law
by the mayor on the ninth of December. Very few cities, especially major
urban centers, have passed such a law.
Hopefully, Atlanta's light pollution will now begin a slow (maybe fast?)
decline. In the next few decades we should once again be able to see stars
fainter than third magnitude from close-in addresses.
This is a major accomplishment in our fight. Tom has had to oppose wealthy,
entrenched, commercial interests and bureaucracies. And he has done it with
almost no help. We owe a great debt to Tom for what he has done. What he has
done for us... and for our children and grandchildren.
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(._.) Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI USA
(_) Computer Laboratory - Department of Communication
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