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Dark sky lighting across Maine

What this decidesWhat outdoor lighting a site may install, and whether existing fixtures will have to be replaced.

Outdoor lighting standards limiting glare and light trespass: fixture and shielding requirements, curfews, and the ordinances adopting them.Our definition of the class.

Your own viewDark sky lighting, cut to what you need to know
9
towns on the record
34
events on the record
26
in the last 90 days

What this page is for one topic across Maine's municipalities on the public record: where it is moving, which towns carry it, the documents behind it. A subscriber sees it cut to their own towns and questions. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Where it is on the record9 towns, most movement first

Every town carrying this class on the record through 2026-08-31: events in the last 90 days against the 90 before, the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number, the latest document.
Gorham22 events22 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-07, Ordinance Committee Meeting Agenda
Rockport2 events2 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-26, 3. 2026.07.23 PB Minutes DRAFT
Kennebunk2 events1 in 90 days ▬ +0.0%latest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter minutes
York1 event1 in 90 daysnew on the recordlatest 2026-08-05, AgendaCenter minutes
Cumberland2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-03-06, Agenda center file Lands & Conservation Commission
Rockland2 events0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-22, Agenda center file 1/7/2026 Energy and Sustainabil
Bangor1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-01-16, Penjajawoc Marsh/Bangor Mall Management Commission
Lewiston1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-12, 02/12/2026 - Staff Review Committee Meeting
Saco1 event0 in 90 dayslatest 2026-02-25, Pepperell Park minutes for November 2025.pdf

Who this typically touches

Business types a matter in this class typically reaches. Our inference from the class, not the record's words; a specific organization is named on these pages only when the record itself names it.

Likely to gain: lighting manufacturers and electrical contractors (shielding and curfew rules drive fixture replacement).

Likely affected: developers of parking, athletic and commercial sites (lighting standards are applied at site plan review).

Worth watching: observatories and dark-sky advocates (designation depends on the ordinance being adopted and enforced).

One scope up

The same class at a wider scope: Dark sky lighting in New Hampshire · Dark sky lighting in Maine · Dark sky lighting in Massachusetts · Dark sky lighting across the country.

Counts and dates are taken from the documents on the record in this window. The class and its definition are ours.