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LETTER: White Rock towers bring more light pollution

'Decorative' light is disruptive to wildlife and humans, this writer says
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Exterior lighting on White Rock towers is disruptive to wildlife and people, this writer says.

Editor,

While officials are celebrating the structural completion of the third Foster Martin’s The Landmark, residents are bemoaning that there will be one more monstrous waterfall light glaring in the neighbourhood. These lights, the only function being “decorative,” shine in residents' windows, disrupt bird flyways, disorientate insects, and affect the growth of vegetation, not to mention light up our night skies so that seeing the stars is something of the past.

While the architectural features of the Landmark are attractive, the light pollution emitting from them is not.

Barbara Davidson, White Rock