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Street lights

The recent HOA meeting included a complaint about the inability of our street lights to, like, shed light on the streets. I've always wondered why Jubilee chose street lights in dark amber instead of, say, white or yellow.  (Had all the board members just had cataract surgery when the lights were installed?)  I'd like to see brighter streets. If it's just a matter of changing out the bulbs. is it worth proposing to the planning committee?

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Good idea. I would add that some of those lights, it's kind of a mishmash, look to be the old, orangish,  high pressure sodium models which have been widely replaced by LED lights which  are brighter, produce less heat and last much longer.

There are quite a few lights that don't work at all, and several that work intermittently.  What group / committee / management company is in charge of fixing them?

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There are long stretches on Jubilee Blvd with no lights at all. That said, there needs to be a balance between well-lit and over-lit. We need enough lights to adequately see the sidewalks and deter would be thieves, but not so much as to spoil our nighttime views.  The overly bright lights of Meta/Facebook and the Walmart Distribution Center to the contrary, Los Lunas is SUPPOSED to be a "dark sky" community.

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To answer the earlier reply - who is in charge of light repair, good question - but  Sentry is on the way out and a new managment company is on the way in. The most responsive individual we've had in recent years is Veronica. It looks like she will transition to the new group - Associa Canyon Gate Management. Her new email will be

...to continue, her new email will be veronica.baca@cgres.com. Give her some details and she will send it on.

Regarding lighting in general, more could certainly be used used in dark stretches. In the dream world of an adequate community budget, they should all be replaced with down- lighting models. And hopefully those blazing sun-on-a-pole lights over at Facebook are temporary.

I suspect the Jubilee planning committee also has a role here. They have been a sort of resident public works department, filling cracks in the pavement and overseeing sidewalks. Looking at streetlights may be in their wheelhouse.