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Page 8 of 36
Plymouth Survey Results – October 2004 Appendix
2d7. Light pollution (15 written comments):
Placement of streetlights shouldn't be directly into any particular house.
All outside lights should have "down skirts" to prevent light pollution.
Car dealer lights & signage
Diminishes night sky viewing
Does not bother me at my location but I'm glad you paying attention to this.
Glow from Hannaford, WalMart & downtown interfere with enjoyment of night sky
Lighting should be decreased & there should be an investment in "sky friendly" lighting.
Would like to see Plymouth develop an outdoor lighting ordinance, for businesses & private
residences.
Seemingly improbably to control in human setting
Tenney Mt Hwy yellow glow at night, Airport lights yellow glare
Too many street lights & other lights, no stars
Town looks like a "House of Ill Repute"
WalMart's fluorescent letter sign cannot be seen from Rte 25 - so why waste it on the sky &
neighbors?
We have too much sky glow - not just WalMart
Keep light pollution minimum & paving
2d8. Off Campus Student Housing (73 written comments):
Looks like a slum area in parts
I support university expansion to create more on-campus housing.
Impacts our quality of life, but I believe we have seen the worst of it.
In past 10 yrs, student housing has greatly improved as problem houses are taken over by
responsible management.
Is a real problem - from the noise students create to conditions of the homes they destroy in a
matter of months, to garbage they leave outside in May.
It is a travesty that residential housing has been permitted to be converted to college housing.
Residential neighborhoods are negatively affected and/or eliminated.
Lack of ability of college to police students off campus. Poor policing of facilities. Lack of college
responsibility.
Litter in off campus housing is an eyesore.
Housing drives the need for services so we ought to slow housing starts.
Make more attractive to rent to families
Make the student live on campus for first three years.
More enforcement
More students should be kept on campus! PSU needs to step up & build more dorms & change the
rules for staying on campus!!
Need to pay taxes like everyone
No control of student housing vs. zoning restrictions
Lack of landlord supervision
College needs additional dorm space. Tendency to sloppy unkempt student apts. – noise, etc.
#1 problem for our community. Greater than all other problems combined. We all know that this is
the college's fault, but lets get beyond that & work together. College needs to build more on-
campus housing & town needs to help make it happen.
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