More lights in Clintonville? (A walk around the neighborhood)

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Started 1 year ago by steelfist
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Lakee911
Clintonville (South)
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Analogue Kid wrote >>

msgoodtimes wrote >>
The street behind me is a short block that dead ends into our garage, so I'm not sure lights are a priority there. There *is* one light on each end of the street. We also have our back porch light on all night/every night, FWIW. I generally stick to the main roads when walking and haven't had a problem with the amount of light -- it seems perfectly adequate. I just wish more people behind us would turn their porch lights on.

This is a good point. If most houses in a neighborhood turned on their porch lights, there probably wouldn't be a need for street lights in most areas. Human eyes are actually pretty good at adapting to low but diffuse light levels.

My folks live in the burbs and everyone has a street light at the end of the drive. With them all on it is pretty bright and quite charming.

Posted 1 year ago #
Lakee911
Clintonville (South)
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Analogue Kid wrote >>

msgoodtimes wrote >>
The street behind me is a short block that dead ends into our garage, so I'm not sure lights are a priority there. There *is* one light on each end of the street. We also have our back porch light on all night/every night, FWIW. I generally stick to the main roads when walking and haven't had a problem with the amount of light -- it seems perfectly adequate. I just wish more people behind us would turn their porch lights on.

This is a good point. If most houses in a neighborhood turned on their porch lights, there probably wouldn't be a need for street lights in most areas. Human eyes are actually pretty good at adapting to low but diffuse light levels.

My folks live in the burbs and everyone has a street light at the end of the drive. With them all on it is pretty bright and quite charming.

Posted 1 year ago #
steelfist
Southwest Clintonville
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Lakee911 said:
I tend to agree with Hivner. I don't think it is overly lit. I've spoken with many South Clintonville residents and there is a big push for more lighting...not in general, but in specific locations. A well lit area increases safety and reduces crime. I really can't say that I see a decrease in lighting anytime in the future.

Jason

I need to move out of Clintonville. This neighborhood is becoming more and more unnatural and more like the artificial, wasteful big city neighborhoods. I moved here because I enjoyed the nature of the area, but it seems as if people in the area do not care much for it at all. The only thing keeping this place close to nature is all the parks, even those are slowly being swallowed up by artificial lighting. Before you could sit on the hill in Clinton-Como park and enjoy the night skies. Now, the lighting at the end of Weber floods into the park and disrupts the night. Overuse of artificial light not only effects nature but also effects human psychology.

Is there really need for as many lights along the south end of the Olentangy Village condos?

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution

Posted 6 months ago #
cheap
Westgate
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there are clusters of neighborhoods off of Sawmill Rd that have no streetlights,and it gets real dark out there.

i'm on the west side now,and walk my dogs to Westgate park every night.

it's extremely well lit until you get in the trees at the park.

Posted 6 months ago #
steelfist
Southwest Clintonville
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It just sucks that I moved to this neighborhood when I did. I now wish I never would have moved here.

Studies also show that lighting does not have a significant effect on crime at all. People are so caught up in living in a perfect society, I'm telling you, soon there will be cameras in every neighborhood. When will it stop. We're moving towards living in a robotic society.

People that don't care about nature will probably not care about what I'm saying, but the parks suck now. I remember sitting in my car at the parking lot in Como Park and looking out at the trees along the olentangy and staring out at the night sky. I haven't done that all year because there are bright lights shining down the parking lot. So many areas I've enjoyed going to are slowly being wiped out by large, bright glows of artificial. I guess it's human nature. I've also noticed a lot of the trees in the woods are getting cut.

Posted 6 months ago #
cheap
Westgate
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there's always the Hustler store.

Posted 6 months ago #
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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steelfist said:
It just sucks that I moved to this neighborhood when I did. I now wish I never would have moved here.

Studies also show that lighting does not have a significant effect on crime at all. People are so caught up in living in a perfect society, I'm telling you, soon there will be cameras in every neighborhood. When will it stop. We're moving towards living in a robotic society.

People that don't care about nature will probably not care about what I'm saying, but the parks suck now. I remember sitting in my car at the parking lot in Como Park and looking out at the trees along the olentangy and staring out at the night sky. I haven't done that all year because there are bright lights shining down the parking lot. So many areas I've enjoyed going to are slowly being wiped out by large, bright glows of artificial. I guess it's human nature. I've also noticed a lot of the trees in the woods are getting cut.

My recommendation is Montana. Or maybe Wyoming. We live in a city - there will be lights.

Posted 6 months ago #
Cookie
Flyntonville
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cheap said:
there's always the Hustler store.

That's pretty well lit too.

Posted 6 months ago #
steelfist
Southwest Clintonville
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Twixlen said:
My recommendation is Montana. Or maybe Wyoming. We live in a city - there will be lights.

The question is not whether there will be lights, but whether there are too many lights.

Like, for example, at the south end of the condos in olentangy village. Please walk down there and ask yourself if that much light is needed. There are lights that the residents there can turn on, yet they feel the need to have street lamp type lights attached to each condo that don't go off. I'm eventually going to move. But then again I moved to Clintonville because of its nature. I think slowly most of nature will be wiped out and the world is going to be mostly all man made and artificial as possible.

Posted 6 months ago #
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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steelfist said:
It just sucks that I moved to this neighborhood when I did. I now wish I never would have moved here.

Studies also show that lighting does not have a significant effect on crime at all. People are so caught up in living in a perfect society, I'm telling you, soon there will be cameras in every neighborhood. When will it stop. We're moving towards living in a robotic society.

First come the lights, then come the robots! ;)

Posted 6 months ago #