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Breckenridge is back on its way to become a certified International Dark Sky Community If it’s certified, it would join 42 other currently certified dark sky community across the world. With the town’s gameplan to have an application in for 2025, certification could come in the next several years.
Assistant community development director Julia Puester presented a multi-year plan to the Breckenridge Town Council on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to get the town and its residences into compliance. In total the effort is estimated to cost the town $3.6 million. A state bill passe last year will allow the town to tap into technical assistance grants.
Breckenridge started working to become a dark sky community in 2007, when it passed new exterior lighting rules. Since then all new buildings and remodels have required dark sky compliant lighting. The town had originally set July 1, 2022, as a deadline for all exterior light fixtures to match the new code, but in 2020, during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic, the town moved to extend the deadline to 2025, but no other major steps have been take to attain certification in the years since.
