Southtowns Record

350 QUAKER ROAD

Government
Town of Aurora
Board
Zoning Board of Appeals
Meeting
Sep 17, 2026
Kind
Other
Topics
Zoning and land use, Budget and taxes, Roads and traffic, Water, sewer and drainage, Parks and recreation, Housing

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4. We have received an overwhelming positive confidential vote
  response from PGC residents, in support of our petition for a
  variance. Per the attached, we had only (1) household that was  -_ ue
  in opposition to our variance request. It should be noted that
  when the residents in dispute purchased their unit last October,
  it was supplied with custom installed drapes and blinds. See the
  attached information from the previous owner. They have  = 9&* a
  stated in writing “we should not have to deploy drapes and
  blinds to block intense blue-light bulbs”. However, their
  lamppost fixture never had a 5000K 75w bulb installed in the
  lamppost that serves their unit. Their correspondence suggests
  they were speaking on behalf of other PGC residents. The
  recent community vote does not align with their thinking.
5. However, we will agree to revise our Condo “rules & regs” and
  maintenance practices, to prohibit 5000K or “daylight” light
  bulbs in these lampposts. We were slowly installing the
  “daylight” or 5000K bulbs over the other “soft” or 2700K bulbs
  due to the ability of the 5000K to offer better color contrast
  (encouraged by insurance and law enforcement for security).
  Since illumination levels between daylight and soft is
  insignificant, we feel the change will not be a detriment to our
  community.
6. Our variance request is not “substantial”, just allowing us to
  maintain past practice, with the revision cited above in #5.
7. In our view the human safety/property security factor heavily
  outweighs the intent of the code revision. Additionally, recent