Vail shelves plan to regulate ‘decorative’ lights

By scott miller

VAIL — Keep your tiki torches and lit-up lawn flamingos. The Vail Town Council Tuesday decided not to regulate decorative outdoor lights.The topic came up at a July work session about possibly regulating “holiday” outdoor lights. Those lights are common in the winter, of course. But town officials had received some complaints that people were leaving their lights on through the spring, summer and fall. The town already has lighting regulations, first passed in 1980, but decorative outdoor lights — many call them “Christmas lights” — had so far escaped regulation.But with a few complaints in hand — primarily about …

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