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Outdoor Lighting Ordinances:
Proven Alternatives to the "M.L.O."
A reprint of the Illinois Coalition for Responsible Outdoor Lighting website page at
http://www.illinoislighting.org/propose2.html
Our organization is firmly committed to the idea that our society needs to be made
aware of the substantial problems caused by current outdoor lighting practices, and that
when these issues are better understood, and improved methods are demonstrated,
many problems will decrease through voluntary adoption of the improved practices.
However, as with many issues where the practices of one party have widespread
effects on neighboring parties, or on the communal environments (both natura